Note:
This report is ongoing (see the version number indicated above).

In the course of collecting the various new expressions
that appear in my writings, I came to realize that neologisms are indeed new or
novel constructions, but they are the norm, rather than the exception. Every
speaker and writer, even every thinker, produces neologisms as a normal by
product of speaking, writing, and thinking.

I offer this article with two purposes in mind. First, as a
case history of neologistic productions in the science area, tracing the
appearance of scientific neologisms over a period of half a century of my
publications in psychology. The three main periods and topic areas are specified
in My Neochart. Second, I hope this will encourage others to
keep track and collect
the continuous production of their neologisms. I think that the practice of
collecting neologisms may become an important and useful area of study of the
human mind (see the Chart entry on Community Cataloguing Practices). The future databases of neologisms may contain not merely a listing
of them, but their definition and explication, the biographical conditions of
their creation, such as date, topical context within which each appears,
tracings of its diffusion through their adoptions by others, collateral and
independent constructions of homonymous neologisms, and so on.

I believe that everyone can benefit from the practice of
collecting their own neologistic productions over time. It is a form of
biographical
record keeping. It is also a form of cultural history, a charting of
community cataloguing practices by which human beings keep track of their
perceptions, insights, experiences, thus life itself.

Neologistic records, graphs, and charts of a group or
community, make visible the topic focus of its people. It is their very
consciousness -- their preoccupations, their interests, their values, their
desires. Neolgistic records create a spiritual geography of our vertical
community depicting thought and meaning, idea and truth. No doubt a “Human
Atlas of Neologisms” may eventually be derived from world-wide neologistic
databases, that can show the mental unity of the human race, and possibly, the
directionality of its spiritual destiny.

In the
early 1950's I was an undergraduate majoring in psychology at McGill University in
Montreal, Canada. It was my second year of living in an English speaking
community and my freshman year was a real challenge. English was my 11th
language -- for the record, in order: Yiddish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Rumanian,
Flemish, French, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, English. Since my specialty in
psychology was in the area of psycholinguistics, people sometimes asked me if I
became a psycholinguist because of so many languages I know. I was always afraid
that people might find out that I really only knew one language, English, which
I started learning in high school as a foreign language before I enrolled in
college in an English university. I stopped using all the other languages, which
I only knew as a child. Besides a little French that's left over, an adult I
have been pretty much unilingual.

In
1958 as a junior in college, I was hired as a research assistant by Dr. Wallace E.
Lambert. This started my official career as a scientist, researcher, and
author of articles and books in psychology. In my undergraduate honors thesis I
proposed a new explanation for how practice in one modality can have effects on
another modality. I demonstrated that hearing a new word spoken on a tape
several times will lower the visual recognition threshold for that word. Using
the new (1949) neurophysiological theory of Donald Hebb
(whose seminar we were required to take as graduate students), I argued that
repeated auditory input of a word would create neural pathways high up in the
central system hierarchy, so that there would be overlapping priming effects
across modality of input. I made a diagram to show the relation and called it
cross-modality transfer effects. That was my first neologism, which the
dictionary defines as the creation of a new word or expression.

When
I google the expression “cross-modality transfer” I find out that there are 55
sites or documents that use this expression, and one of them is a page showing
the abstract of a journal article titled “Cross-modality transfer between
pictures and their names” (1980). There appear to be no connection between my
neologism and the use of this expression by others after that. Since I have
constructed many neologisms in my half-century career as scientist and author, I
am delighted to check up on them from time to time, to see what happened to
them, and how they have diffused into the minds and writings of others.

My
most successful neologism is the expression “semantic satiation” which I
constructed in
my Ph.D. Dissertation in 1960. While I was working on my doctoral
dissertation I co-authored
several research articles with Dr. W. E.
Lambert, whose grant funded my undergraduate and graduate assistantships. In my
dissertation I defined semantic satiation as the
reduction in intensity of meaning of a word when it is repeated, heard, or
inspected. I related it to the reduced neural firing caused by massed
repetitions of an invariant stimulus input. I developed the generality and
theoretical significance of the concept in my Master’s Thesis (1960), and then
in my Doctoral Dissertation (1962 at McGill University). Subsequently I
co-authored several more articles with W. E. Lambert, and several on my own.
There is a sense of delight I am experiencing, and awe, when I google “semantic
satiation” today (in 2008) and find over 2,000 results listed.

Interestingly, a related neologism I coined in the same dissertation was
"cross-satiation", which was short for "cross-linguistic satiation effect." I
demonstrated that when a bilingual person repeats a word in one language, the
intensity of the meaning of the translated word in the second language, shows
the satiation effect as well. This cross linguistic transfer effect of neural
fatigue has apparently not been investigated by anyone since (however this
conclusion is based on a Google search only).

I
have not made a systematic study of this, but my limited sampling results tell
me that only about 15 percent of the entries trace the concept back to me. At
first I was a bit shocked and indignant, but then had to laugh at myself for
such an unworthy sentiment. All ideas that come to us enter our conscious
awareness, poof, they are there, and
they were not there just an instant ago. Where did they come from, these new
ideas, new meanings, new understandings and insights? Certainly I cannot claim
that they are from me, but only through me. Our cognitive organ is not only a
thinking instrument but also a reception instrument, receiving ideas from the
world of ideas, which many have called the spiritual world, and more recently,
I have called the “mental world of eternity.” This neologism is so new that
google gives only my writings for this expression.

My
point is that I feel ridiculous, and quite a bit pompous, to want to take
credit for all my neologisms so that others to perpetuity will have to
acknowledge that it was coined by one Leon James (Jakobovits). Reflection shows
that I and all others use neologisms that we do not attribute to the
originator, and some that we have included in our vocabulary so that it is ours
– why should we have to trace it back? At any rate, it would make an
interesting piece of research, I think, to study the laws of neologisms to see
how the backwards attribution process in academic referencing works. Now, since
google, everything has speeded up. Information across the world travels faster
than the few seconds it takes us to view the screen contents in front of us.

I
hope that this neochart might be of service to those who are going to research
this issue in the future. At the same time it provides me with the opportunity
to present a partial index of what I consider my most useful ideas in
psychology, or rather, the scientific ideas that I was privileged to receive.
What made me so privileged? Today I know the answer: it was my love for these
particular ideas that made my mind to serve as a suitable receptor for them. I
believe that others can examine these ideas with interest, and if they love
them, they can make them part of their own thinking, and thus make them their
own. Giving neologisms to each other is the mutual enrichment of community
mental life.

When
I was a college student one of the early concepts I learned from Introductory
Psychology (taught by the illustrious Donald Hebb)
was the German word Zeitgeist
(literally: the spirit of the times), which is the idea that people of a
generation independently come up with the same ideas, inventions, and
innovations since it is “the spirit” of the age, and it is this spirit for
which the cognitive organs of various people act as receptors, given the individual’s
special love for them. And, pop, in comes the new idea, insight, perception, or
understanding.

I
coined the expression "applied psycholinguistics" in 1978. Today Goggle gives
over 8,000 sites that use this term. I would hypothesize that very few of these
are traceable back to me, most of the 8,000 occurrences representing several
independent strands. I would consider this a normal process of the independent
constructions of neologisms by a number of scientists whose thinking was
influenced by the focus of the times. The 1970s saw the rapid expansion of the
new hybrid field of psycholinguistics and thousands of researchers and writers
were active in this area.

The Master Neochart
contains hundreds of entries with a zero occurrence, which means that these neologisms and new
phrases do not appear in any of the hundreds of billions of pages that Google indexes.
An example is "Clicking as a spiritual act"
(which I coined in 1997) and does not occur among the
billions of documents and trillions of sentences people have posted on the Web. This surprises
me given the intense focus in our society on filtering Web sites to protect
people from materials they consider offensive, or to protect them from phishing
and malicious viruses. To protect children from falling on explicit adult sites
parents and teachers use filtering software that prevent them from clicking on
whatever they want. So I would have thought that people
would connect "clicking" to a decision that has social and moral implications.
To click or not to click is a dilemma that faces hundreds of millions of
people every day, not just for spiritual and moral reasons, but certainly I
would think, including these.

Another example is the expression "community cataloguing practices" which I
coined in 1978. It does not occur anywhere in today's infopshere of the World
Wide Web. This does not surprise me since it is so specialized, viewing
community practices in terms of how people catalogue or keep track of what
counts as what in their social environment. The expression "feminizing the
marriage" (which I coined in 2000) does not occur in the entire universe of the
World Wide Web. This is very surprising since "feminizing" or "feminization" is
listed with over 150,000 occurrences and marriage with 1.5 million occurrences.
The non-occurrence of "feminizing the marriage" or "feminizing marriages" shows
the force and power of "neologistic constructions" to combine words that resist
being together due to intellectual climate. In contrast, "feminizing husbands"
does occur but it is associated with female domination, sex change, or
pornography. This is why I rescinded my neologism of "feminizing the husband"
and am no longer using it in my writings. The expression "surrendered husband"
(which I coined in 2002) occurs hundreds of times, but in various different
senses.

Not knowing much about what others have researched on neologisms (see what I
have gathered here
from the Web). It appears from my empirical
self-witnessing that neologisms are new word combinations that pop into our
awareness when we are grasping for an expression that will describe a perception
we have of a sensation, idea, or feeling. This definition of neologisms overlaps
with the way linguists describe the cognitive operation of everyday
verbalizations in talk or discourse. In other words, neologisms are the result
of normal ordinary
language competence and performance. Every speaker of a
language constructs neologisms as a routine practice in daily social life and in
private thinking.

My wife Dr. Diane Nahl and I coined a number of neologisms in our 2000 book
Road Rage and
Aggressive Driving. One of them is "anti-road rage awareness" which has an
occurrence of zero, other than my own use of it. Again this surprises me, given
the fact that I introduced
my 1997 congressional
testimony with the title “Symptoms of Road Rage." Today it
has become a daily topic in newspaper articles and thousands
of Web sites. The expression "road rage
awareness" occurs 280 times today, which shows
its growing topical interest.
Interestingly, I coined the expression “anti-road rage
awareness activities”
in 2000 but it still has a zero occurrence, except for my articles and letters
on the Web.

The difference between our neologism of "anti-road
rage awareness" and the widespread use of "road rage awareness" is that in our
book we focus on "road rage remedies" or "remedial road rage," using such other
neologisms as "children against road rage," "road rage nursery," "road rage
scenario analysis," "road rage prevention," "road rage legislation," etc. Within
this context there is the idea of "anti-road rage" activities, hence "anti-road
rage awareness exercises." The expression "anti-road rage" occurs 8,600 times in
various contexts, e.g., anti-road rage TV ad, anti-road rage bumper stickers,
anti-road rage laws, but not "anti-road rage awareness." This shows that as a
new topic area develops (road rage was introduced around 1985), various features
or facets are progressively uncovered by perception of the issues involved.
Hence the number of neologisms in a specific subject area gradually grows as a
reflection of its semantic and structural maturity.

A new information practice at amazon.com (and other sites) is to provide phrases
from the book that have a low statistical probability of occurring together in
other books or text. For the Road Rage book amazon.com provides these
"improbable" expressions:

Except for three or four expressions in the list above, the remaining may all be
considered neologisms. This shows that neologisms consist of low probability
combinations of words. "Supportive driving" is a true neologism as it appears to
be not present prior to our 2000 book.
Today it is listed 1010 times by Google (May 30, 2008).
By inspecting the results I determined that most of these are what's known as
"false drops" to professional searchers and librarians. Two false
drops that occur
repeatedly is "driving, supportive" (which is not a phrase), and "supportive
driving position," which is a reference to car seats. But there are about 50
occurrences of the "supportive driving" phrase that we coined in our
2000 book, and most of these
can be traced back to our book, our
DrDriving.org Web site, or a newspaper interview and story.

" is listed by google 16,500 times but most of
them are not talking about drivers' philosophy but about a philosophy that
"drives" a project, program or movement. There does appear to be about a dozen
independent coinage for "driving philosophy" in the sense of motorists. Our
neologism of "driving personality" and "driving personality makeover" does not
occur anywhere independently of us.

In scientific discourse it is a universal practice to address the neologisms
that scientists and reviewers construct in each other's literature. One of the
most influential neologisms of the past one hundred years in linguistics and
psychology was introduced in Noam Chomsky's doctoral dissertation at MIT in
1957. He called the new approach he was proposing for linguistics "generative
grammar." Chomsky elegant and technically powerful theoretical proposal and
demonstration instantly ignited the field of linguistics, precipitating a
classic version of "scientific revolutions" that spilled over into psychology
and cognate fields, spawning psycholinguistics, cognitive science, information
science, and the new "scientific" approach of the language teaching profession.
All that from one neologisms "generative transformation" (and a family of
related or derivative expressions).

Freud's neologisms of "psychopathology of every day life" and the "super-ego"
are among many he constructed. Within one century Freud's "depth psychology"
neologisms, tied together by the doctrine of unconscious motivation, has
penetrated and infused the intellectual life of hundreds of millions around the
world, finding their way into science, literature, novels, popular magazines,
movies, TV, commercials, songs, courts, hospitals, psychotherapists, clergy,
everyday topics. I used of one of Freud's neologisms "psychodynamic" to create
the neologisms of "ethnodynamics" (1977) and "astrodynamics" (1981). The word
"astrodynamics" occurs 164,000 on the Web, so it is clear that it may have
already been in use by thousands of people when I coined it anew by myself. This
is in line with my definition of neologisms as an ordinary everyday
cognitive construction practice. Oh, that sounds like another neologisms,
"cognitive construction practice" Let me google it, just a
moment............................OK, I'm back. The results that there are 8,400
Web sites using the expression "cognitive construction" but no occurrences for
the neologism I just made up "cognitive construction practice."

What about "cognitive construction" in the context of "neologisms"? I found only
one document that qualifies. So it looks like the idea I had of "neologisms as
ordinary cognitive constructions," might qualify as a "neologistic expression"
(there goes another one --- ......................... OK, it occurs 13 times in
google). I have been talking about neologisms several times a day with my wife
as I was writing working on this document (heavy duty linking job!!). At
one point she said to me: You are a neologist. Quick let me google that.
............ Yep, it's been around on 18,000 documents.

What is the opposite of neologisms? Perhaps trite expressions that no longer
carry meaning, yet have an important ritualizing function in exchanges -- Yes,
yes. No, no. I see. What the heck is this! What's wrong? How are you. Thanks a
million. I hate when people...In the 1960s generative semanticist Fillmore
neologued the expression "formulaic expression" to refer to speech acts that
have a ritualizing function primarily, and no longer convey meaning apart from
that ritualizing. And we know that much of human exchange involves speech act
ritualizing in order to create a receptive conversational environment-- So,
how've'you been? What's up, bro. No kidding. Well, gotta go now. Entire
conversational exchanges can sometimes be composed of mostly of formulaic
expressions and ritualizing. When people talk to pets or babies they regularly
say semantically nonsensical things that are pure emotional ritualizings --
Oh, you're supercute. Yep. Supercute. Look at you. Just look at you. So cute. So
cute. Oh, yeah. This is something. Yeah, yeah. So cute. We can call these
expressions "phatic neologisms."

neologist (nee-OL-uh-gist) noun. One who coins, uses, or
introduces new ... So Esther has invited Levey's
neologists to think up a more appropriate word." ...wordsmith.org/words/neologist.html

A "word smith." But so is every ordinary speaker. Noam
Chomsky in the late 1950s impressed my generation of psycholinguistic students
when he gave a theoretical explanation and a convincing argument why it is that
almost every sentence people speak on any day are unique constructions.
Empirical evidence showing the accuracy of this principle was provided by many
other researchers later. People don't say the same sentences except for short
often repeated expressions. The longer a sentence the more likely it is that it
will be unique. Try this easy experiment. Type a paragraph or short letter about
anything you like. Now select and copy various segments of your sentences,
starting with just two words, then three, and so on, and paste it into a
Goggle.com query window. What are the results? How many words of your sentences
do you need before goggle shows that it does not occur among the billions of
documents and hundreds of billions of word sequences others have written. This
experiment will prove to you that most of the sentences you speak to your
parents or friends are unique (except of the repeated phrases that are more like
ritualizing than communicating content).

A neologism is a word, phrase, or expression that describes a
perception, insight, or concept for the first time.

The desire to describe the new perception creates the
neologism through content available in one's memory and understanding. Without
this desire to describe, there would be no description, and no neologism. Love
invents what is pleasing to it. Every neologism is the product of a particular
love. Love is an objective and organic operation of the affective organ in our
mind. This affective operation is activated by the substance of spiritual heat
flowing in from the
Spiritual
Sun in the mental world of eternity, where all human feelings and thoughts
exist or are located. We subjectively experience this mental physiology as a
feeling we call love.

There is an endless variety of loves and sub-loves, which
are called affections. The expression “being affectionate” refers to an
affection of love for someone, expressed through sensorimotor determinations
that the individual manages according to group practice and culture. A
husband’s
love for his wife (affective organ) invents a new idea in his mind (cognitive
organ) about how to express this love in his sensorimotor determinations, that
become visible in the physical body’s actions, such as inventing a surprise for
her, or inventing a new term of affection for her, or a new tone or way of
saying it, or a new way of touching or squeezing, and so on. These behavioral
neologisms are love’s products by which it is satisfied, and lives.

Love produces sensorimotor neologisms by means of cognitive
neologisms. The sequence of production and inventiveness follows this anatomical
pattern:

Love is called here an affective neologism because every
love or affection is unique. No two loves or affections can ever be the same.
Swedenborg reminds us that one can see this uniqueness in people’s faces and
facial expressions. The physical face is an expression of a person’s love, and
especially what he calls “ruling love.” All loves are arranged in an organic
hierarchy like the chart of executives and managers in a business organization,
or in the armed forces, and so on. One’s ruling love is king. All the sub-loves
or affections are ruled by the ruling love. Affections that are contrary or
incongruent with the ruling love are not around, or are on their way to
expulsion. Cognitions are affections in outward garb. A semantic neologism
(cognitive) is merely an affective neologism in external disguise. And a
sensorimotor neologism is a joint product of the marriage between affective and
cognitive neologisms.

From this we can see that affection, idea, sensorimotor
determination, and physical execution are all involved in any human behavior or
interaction. Since every affection or love is unique, it strives to conjoin with
a unique idea that corresponds to that unique love. And from this you can see
that every utterance and expression of a
human being is a neologism

Hence the study of neologisms is the same as the study of
speech acts and discourse. It doesn’t seem that way upon appearances, or else,
why do we need the word neologism in addition to the words like speech act,
utterance, word, or expression. How is neologism different from any expression,
given that all expressions are unique?

According to appearances, the word or phrase spoken or
written may be the same as that of another person, or that of the same person
saying something earlier. So it seems that words and expressions are
recirculated and used constantly as the speech or paragraph proceeds. But this
is only an appearance when we capture as in a freeze frame the word or
expression and consider its meaning. But the actuality of that meaning cannot be
separated from the actuality of that event when it was expressed or used by the
speaker or writer. This context of use is the actuality of what was said in that
situation. But all situations are unique. Hence the actual content meaning, or
referent of the expression used in that instant, was actually unique, and hence
a neologism.

I discussed this issue in 1999, referring to its original
discussion in my 1974 book The Context of
Foreign Language Teaching:

This finding was important. I generalized it to my work in
psycholinguistics where it turned up as "the Principle of Indeterminacy of
Meaning" in which I argued that the definition of a word allows us to put
words together in a sentence, and this sentence does not have a definition
as the words themselves have. One version of this principle will be
found
in this chapter.

Since we use sentences to communicate, I concluded that the
communicative value of the sentence, that is, its meaning, is
indeterminate, and is serviceable only because it homes in as title, to the
general area. My final conclusion was original and revolutionary,
namely, that
sentences are encapsulated titles for paragraphs, pages, and chapters
which we would have to write or say to describe our experiencing in a more
specific or referential manner.

This led to the idea that a new paradigm of linguistics or
psycho-linguistics needs to be developed in which we deal with the syntax of
titles as encapsulated references to particular operations of human
experience. If you want, you can look at
a paper I wrote on titles.

Since there are three levels of thinking and describing,
there are three types of neologisms.

Neologistic expressions are treated differently in science than in poetry, literature,
or commercial products and trademarks. For the inspired poet or song writer every line can contain a novel way of using
a word or a novel way of combining ordinary words. Scientists tend to avoid new
constructions and expressions, unless it is required by the presentation of a
new explanation, theory or method. New words are introduced into English every
year, according to philologists:

New technology, new fashions, new problems, new attitudes: the world is changing
all the time and so is the English language. Every year new words are invented.
Some become a permanent part of the language; others fall out of the language
again when they are no longer needed. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
contains many words that have recently come into the language. (...)

COMPOUNDS are the commonest type of new word, when two existing words are
combined to give a new meaning. It is not hard to guess what an asylum seeker
is, or home-schooling, if you know what the elements mean. One new combination
inspires another. You probably know hardware and software, but do you know
liveware and wetware, formed on the same principles? New words can be easier to
remember if they rhyme, for example chick flick or shock jock, or alliterate (=
repeat the same first letter), for example pester power and drag-and-drop. (...)

New products which are introduced are another source of new words, especially if
the type of product becomes particularly associated with one brand. This has
happened, for example, with Bluetooth™ and Palmcorder™. Sometimes these brand
names become so well-known that they can even be used as verbs: If you don’t
know what it means, you can google it. (...)

NEW MEANINGS for old words: sometimes the need for a new word can be filled by
extending the meaning of a word that already exists. For example, in a business
context a beauty contest is an occasion on which several competing companies or
people try to persuade somebody to use their services; and wallpaper in
computing is the background that you have on your computer screen. (...)

The expression "The
Scientific Meaning of Christmas"
which I constructed in 2004 does not occur anywhere. Here we have an example of
a neologism that uses commonly known terms like "scientific meaning" (44,000)
occurrences and Christmas (450 million), but is expressing an idea for which
there is much resistance in our intellectual climate that strives to separate
science and religion. The same holds for "Spiritual meaning of songs about cars"
(which I coined in 2007). I coined "Spiritual psychobiology" in 1982 and it has
not surfaced anywhere else.

The most recent scientific neologisms I constructed occur in this article which
I started in March 2008. For instance, I just searched the expression
"homonymous neologisms" (coined above in an earlier paragraph), and got only one
link: it was a link to this document which I published on the Web in mid-March
and kept updating as I worked on it.

By the time
this article was 112 pages long on May 30, 2008, it had added 846 neos to the
Master Neochart, which then contained 2013 entries (published version 24d).

Everyone writes or speaks unique sentences. Try it out. Type a note to your
friend. Select a sentence that is longer than six words, copy it and paste it
into a Web search engine query window, making sure you enclose it into quotes.
You will find that many of your sentences are actually unique in the Web
environment containing many trillion sentences. Let's take the last sentence
("You will find...") and paste the entire sentence into google. The results show
that no such sentence exists in the huge infosphere of sentences in English. A
few days from now the search engines will show one document, namely this one.
This sentence would not be considered a scientific neologism.

Now let's take a portion of the sentence: "containing many trillions of
sentences" -- there are no occurrences. This phrase would not be considered a
scientific neologism. The phrase "trillions of sentences" shows up only seven
times, which surprises me. Repeatedly I seem to be surprised at how few
occurrences there are for what appears to me like a likely combination. This
shows that people may not able to predict neologisms (this would make an
interesting experiment in psycholinguistics, or else a nice new game). For
instance given another portion of the sentence above, "sentences are actually
unique in the Web environment," my expectation would be that this would
definitely occur many times. Yet when I google it, there are no occurrences.
Research needs to determine what makes certain word combinations and meanings
unlikely to occur. Of course, I am only considering the corpus of sentences on
the Web that are publicly available for search bots to index and deliver as
results. But this is such a huge population of sentences that it should be
representative of all sentences that have been created in English by the past
few generations. I am discussing written sentences mostly.

The beginning portion of the sentence "You will find that many of your sentences
are actually unique" does not occur anywhere. Even curtailing it to "You will
find that many of your sentences" does not occur. Despite this, it is obviously
not a neologism. If we check for ""You will find that many" -- we get 130,000
occurrences. "many of your sentences" gets 14,000, and "many of your sentences"
gets 14 million occurrences. The portion "many of your sentences are actually
unique" has zero occurrence, as does "many sentences are actually unique." This
really surprises me. "Sentences are unique" would surely occur many times --
actually, it occurs a mere 26 times. And "your sentences are unique" does not
occur anywhere (what a surprise!). The fact that sentences tend to be unique for
the most part has been known since Chomsky's focus on it starting in 1960. The
sentence "Most sentences are unique." occurs only once and is attributed to
author Richard Dawkins' book on evolution. Where is Noam Chomsky? (a sentence
that occurs 12 times!). "Where is Leon James" does not occur anywhere. "Where is
Diane Keaton?" occurs only once, but "Where is George Bush" occurs 1,500 times,
and "Where is God" occurs 230,000 times.

The expression "framed presentations or exhibits" occurs
only once (by me), while "frame presentations" occurs 9,000 times, "framed
exhibits" occurs 360 times, and "presentations or exhibits" occurs 350 times.
The expression "standardized routines for processing information" occurs
once (by me), even though "standardized routines" occurs 3,000 times, and
"processing information" occurs more than one million times. Taking a frequently
used expression ("information processing") and combining it with a less frequent
expression ("standardized routines") results in a unique expression. Is
"standardized routines for processing information" a scientific neologism? I
would think that it is. However, in
the neochart below I have listed mostly one,
two, and three word expressions used to refer to a theoretical or descriptive
construct.

We need to become aware of the numerous
anti-neologisms in our daily mental life. Anti-neologisms are
Ahrimanic forces of fossilization that invade perfectly healthy neologisms and
turn them into what linguists have called “formulaic expressions” (Fillmore
comes to mind). It is discussed in the literature under various topics such as
trite phrases, stale expressions, popular sayings, and conversational rituals
(Goffman comes to mind). Here is a dialog made-up exclusively of
anti-neologisms:

A: Hi, how you doing.

B: Good. How about
you.

A. Yeah, good. What’s
up.

B. Dunno. What’s up
with you.

A. Well, I gotta go.
See yeah.

B. Yeah. See yeah.

These are actually useful anti-neologisms in and of
themselves, because as we know from ethnomethodological psycholinguistics,
performing the sequence of these interactions by A and B constitutes for them as
having had a conversation and a social encounter. If later someone asks A: “Did
you talk to B today?” then B can truthfully answer “Yes.” So ritualistic
anti-neologisms have an important social function and utility. But there may be
others that are more insidious, more destructive and hellish of human endeavor.

community implies a socio-cultural manifold that
excludes uncharted zones

1

community implies a socio-cultural manifold

1

socio-cultural manifold

3

socio-cultural

4 million

manifold

15 million

community

1 billion

The first three rows occur only by me in
this article from 1978. "Socio-cultural manifold" can be considered one of
my neologisms, and it is coined independently by two other writers.
"Socio-cultural" would not be considered my neologism, and neither would
"manifold" or "community." Neologisms are always embedded in a sentence. A
sentence length varies from one word to unknown limits. The longer a sentence
the more difficult it is to understand, and individuals differ in ability and
willingness to decipher the meaning of long sentences. As a practical approach I
would say that the longer a sentence fragment is, the less it qualifies as a
neologism. Most neologisms would be no longer than three words. It would be nice
if we could find on the Web a frequency distribution of words in combinations,
starting with single words, two-word expressions, three-word expressions, etc.
Such data would allow us to investigate the cognitive and affective mechanisms
that create neologisms.

In 1977 I coined the neologism "role type enactment" to refer to the consistent
performance of a style of acting and speaking in a particular social setting or
relationship. Today thirty years later Goggle shows no occurrence of this
expression in the mega-trillions of three-word expressions in English on the
Web. I want to understand what spiritual force, or if you prefer, what mental
force keeps these three words from occurring through all this enormous activity
of writing on the Web. What expressions people type out, or think and say, is
not a random event that just happens without a specific cause making it happen.
Nothing in science is random in the sense that nothing is making it happen.
Every event we can observe must have a cause. It is the cause that scientists
are always searching for in whatever they observe as a fact. What causes me to
think of "role type enactment" thirty years ago, and what causes hundreds of
millions of other English speakers writing trillions of three-word combinations
on billions of Web documents,
to avoid "role type enactment"?

Does the answer have to do with semantic focus of perception?

To investigate this possibility let's look at the semantic environment where the
neologism "role type enactment" came into occurrence. Here are two prior
paragraphs in
the article:

We [Diane and I] are raising an important methodological issue which
requires full and adequate treatment. This cannot be done here, but we want
to illustrate some of the issues involved with a concrete example: the
problem of defining the notion of "conversational environment" objectively.
Intuitively, it is clear that saying something in the course of a
conversation is an adequate device for introducing a change in the
sociocultural environment of the participants, i.e., saying something
can arouse reactions on the part of hearers in the same way that altering
the physical or physiological environment can produce reactions. In fact,
saying thing in the course of verbal exchanges constitutes the most
prominent method use in human communities for affecting the sociocultural
environment, especially when we include saying things to one's Self.

Despite this prominence of verbal exchanges in the community the objective
definition of what constitutes a functional conversational spot is
difficult to obtain in the most ordinary of situations. As Goffman has
argued, few verbal exchanges can be explained, even in crude terms, using
such devices as Question/Answer, Request/Legitimization, Attack/Defense,
Mover/Reply Move, and the like, for it is quickly discovered that most of
talk in natural situations is totally spontaneous and reactive. This
means that talk, like other behavior, is responsive to contingencies in the
environment rather than to deliberate or conscious strategies of moving and
responding to moves, and therefore, the functional units are to be
discovered independently of conscious strategies. We intend to show that
the functional units of talk in conversation are occasioned by parameters
that are independent of conscious awareness, hence inaccessible by methods
that average subjective reports as in survey research or experimental data
dependent on instructions.

In other words, my attention was focused on trying to find a measure for what
was known in ethnomethodology in the 1970s as "conversational environment." Here
I was focusing specifically on the nature of conversational interaction as being
spontaneous rather than consciously intended. This means that the style of
interaction cannot be discovered by having speakers answer various questions
about why they interact in a particular way at a particular time. They are just
reacting and acting and interacting. And then we say this:

The objective definition of conversational environment can be approached
through the delimitation of segments of conversation which are independently
defined from such subjective features as topic or content of talk. We
shall illustrate this possibility using the transcript already discussed
above and attributed to individual A. Note that the episode involves four
persons identified in terms of their appearance as follows: (... skipping)

Tabulating the talking turns in the above manner (Figure 2a) more nearly
brings out the consequences of the first transformation, i.e., of
treating a conversation as a sequence of interactive links. For example, it
shows that the transformation is topological, viz., the
four-dimensional phenomenon known as conversational episode (place-time
specifications) receives a topographic projection whose mathematical or
geometric properties can be exploited for describing less visible features
of verbal interactional activities. For example, counting the number of
interventions or measuring the length of the line five a characterization
of each participant's behavior: this too is a major theoretical step that
needs careful treatment. In other words, merely counting the number
of interventions does not constitute a characterization; instead, it
constitutes a measure of participation for this particular observed event.
We are proposing, however, to upgrade the significance of the count into a
measure of role type, or some such term denoting characteristic
behavior. (See Chapter 9, Section [9.3.II.2.1 - 2D].)
From:
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/instructor/applied4.html
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In other words, the environment or character or style of a conversational
interaction can be objectively defined or measured by taking sub-segments of the
interaction (=lines of a conversational transcript) and seeing how the
sub-topics mentioned in the exchange are linked together. Typically, person A
might mention topic X while person B reacts to it by mentioning another topic.
The second topic gets discussed for three or four talking turns, then A comes
back to the first topic. And so on with other topics. So topics weave in and out
of each other during a normal spontaneous conversation. The last sentence in the
paragraph above introduces the idea of "role type" which is a prior neologism I
have been discussing for three years prior to the writing of this paragraph. And
so we continue:

In particular, the issue of characterizing role behavior is much
easier since we are then dealing with the problem of how to catalogue
community practices in conversations, -- a much simpler task for the
present.

In terms of the notion of role type, then, we can say that number of
interventions, and their distribution, are indices of a person's habitual
conduct in social situations, while at the same time we are to stress that
"social situations" must not for our purposes be defined in terms of an
arbitrary set of variables chosen by an investigator, whatever the variables may
be. To sum it up: conversations are information "environments" shaped or
constructed by talkers through the content of their responses to other talkers.
It is a mutual and reciprocal interaction or communicative exchange in which
talkers perform for each other, making impressions upon the others, affecting
them, arousing emotions in them as a reaction to what content they chose to
perform, and how the performance was delivered. This goes on at a very rapid
pace since not only do talkers overlap in speech, but they also perform for each
other continuously -- remaining silent, looking intent, yawning, shaking the
head, looking away, saying a sequence of Mhm..mhm's, opening eyes wide,
grimacing, or taking a talking turn by saying something, which involves a series
of speech acts -- agreeing, disagreeing, expressing humor, drawing an
implication, saying something unrelated, and so on. This performance or
enactment in the exchange is the talker's "role type enactment." That semantic
focus required a neologism to mark it, identify it as a phenomenon about
conversational exchanges.

"My work has led me to the
formulation of an understanding of cultural behavior that recognizes the
modulations of individual seeking and suffering as actualized reifications of
culturally standardized ritual possibilities"

Of course the entire sentence is unique. But if you take two and three
sentence combinations within the sentence, you obtain several scientific
neologisms:

1.understanding of cultural behavior (only 17
occurrences)

2.formulation of an understanding (40 occurrences)

3.modulations of individual seeking (zero
occurrences)

4.actualized reifications (zero occurrences)

5.standardized ritual possibilities (zero
occurrences)

6.suffering as actualized reifications (zero
occurrences)

I would have thought that "understanding of cultural behavior" would occur many
thousands of times, instead of just 17. I was so amazed that I had to redo the
search on google three times, and then I checked yahoo. I have no explanation
for the non-usage of the expression "understanding of cultural behavior." The
expression "cultural behavior" occurs nearly 200,000 times, and the word
"understanding" occurs more than 800 million times. So why so few occurrences of
"understanding of cultural behavior"?

According to Marbe's Law, which I learned as an undergraduate major in
psychology in the 1950s, frequency of occurrence of a word or expression in a
community reflects the degree of interest shown for that topic. Topics and words
that are popular reflect general interest in it by the population or group. As
an example, here are some topics and their frequency of occurrence on Yahoo.com:

games

4.1 billion

money

4 billion

children

2.5 billion

sex

1.5 billion

God

1.25 billion

crime

790 million

federal government

450 million

parenting

200 million

nightmare

million

terrorists

120 million

Alzheimer

100 million

jihad

50 million

Ronald Reagan

35 million

road rage

14
million

psycholinguistics

2 million

neologisms

2 million

---------------------------------

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typing mistakes

240,000

ennead

200,000

neurosemantics

130,000

ethnopractice

20

glossolids

0

I had difficulty finding words or topics that occur less than 100,000, except
for my neologisms. It's a different situation with two-word combinations:

The more words that make up a combination, the harder it is to find frequent
occurrences, and they quickly tend to become unique.

Consider these Yahoo generated occurrences:

incredibly
153 million

bright
444 million

yellow
1.8 billion

patterns
380 million

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"incredibly bright"
36 million

"yellow patterns"
18,000

"bright yellow"
9.5 million

---------------------------------------------------------------------

"bright yellow patterns"
99

"incredibly bright yellow"
265

---------------------------------------------------------------------

"incredibly bright yellow patterns" 0

In other words, if you take four frequently used words (hundreds of millions of
times on the Web), and you combine them two at a time, three at a time, and all
four at a time, the combinations quickly get much smaller, and finally unique.

I think that ordinarily scientists think about neologisms
as new “terms” or “terminology” made up of one word. Lists and dictionaries that
keep track of neologisms provide them as single words. But
neos come in any length. As you can see from
The Neochart
here, and from the neocharts of
others, neologisms vary in number of words from 1, to two-word expressions, the
three-word phrases or combinations, and in fact to any length. There is no limit
to the number of words in neologisms.
The probability of an expression being a
neologism approaches certainty in proportion to the number of words it
contains. According to linguistic research in the Chomskyan era most people’s
sentences in discourse are unique.

Here is one syntactic
typology of neologisms that might be useful for
research on neologisms:

·Single word
neos (“new terminology”), including titles of books and articles, trade
names, and endearing neos or put down neos.

·Phrase
level neos (mostly between 2 and 5 words)

·Speech act
neos (the entire expression is used with interactional significance)

Sentential neos express a full assertion or make a comment
about some subject. Philosophy sentential
neologisms are also known as “sayings” about life and truth, also known
historically as “proverbs,” and in Zen tradition as a “koan.”

Sentence
neos are neos constructed as a full sentence. The sentential neo makes a
complete stand alone assertion. It expresses an argument, a conclusion, a
doctrine, a philosophy of life.
Categorized
neocharts contain selections of sentential neos arranged by time or topic
that express the author’s understanding, knowledge, and wisdom.

Here are some examples of sentential neos about life and
truth sampled from The
Master Neochart:

A spiritual husband loves his wife spiritually as well
as naturally.

A wife loves numerous masculine traits and ideas that
her husband has.

According to the
Swedenborg Reports, such as is
our love, such is our understanding, and consequently, such is our neo
production.

Face work neos
(Goffman comes to mind) refer to speech act neos that people routinely construct
in interaction with others. For example: “I am so, so super sorry!”—which has a
google occurrence of just one. Or: “I am so excited that I can hardly wait you
know." – which has a zero occurrence.

Neocalendars are
calendars that provide ‘a neo a day’
feature, or ‘a neo of the month’
feature. Some day soon someone will provide a neo widget with an RSS feed to
provide for digital delivery systems for neos and desktop neos. Similarly,
neocards are cards people send each other with a neo message. Chicken soup neos
are intended to soothe one’s mental environment and feed it with hope neos and
self-confidence building neos.

Sentential neos pack a complete assertion. They are
philosophical and spiritual statements. By selecting all the sentential neos in
a neochart and sorting them alphabetically, we produce the poetry of neologisms.
The spiritual poetry of neologisms is hidden within each one of them. This
follows the universal principle expounded in the Swedenborg Reports that
successive degrees are together in simultaneous degrees.

The familiar cause-effect sequence is an instance of this,
though it is generally unknown to the scientists today. Everyone knows that
cause is first, then effect follows. But few people know that the cause is
within the effect. People think of the cause as the precipitating causal event
in the past. This is because they have a purely physical or materialistic
explanation (layer 8C) of cause and effect. It is like intellectual
Flatland. A
dimension of reality is eliminated, leaving something flat or flattened. It is
conceptual reductionism. The Swedenborg Reports restore conceptual duality,
consequently true reality. Duality is declared and revealed in all Sacred
Scripture. It is God’s Word, therefore Divine Truth, which is reality itself.

Duality encompasses two worlds, one physical in time, and
the other mental in eternity. This is also called the spiritual world or the
afterlife. Born into eternity through a dual body, one in each world, we ‘pass
on’ at death and resuscitate a few hours later in the spiritual body and our own
familiar mind and identity of self. To say that we “pass on” is to speak
according to the appearance, especially to those still “on earth.” The
scientific specifics revealed in the Swedenborg Reports indicate that our mind
and self are in the spiritual body only, and therefore we are born into eternity
and stay there. We are merely not conscious that our spiritual body is
functioning in the mental world of eternity. Our thoughts and feelings are in
that immortal spiritual body in eternity. So instead of actually “passing on”
from “this side to that side”, we are merely becoming conscious that we are
already in the mental world of eternity from birth. This new spiritual
consciousness is made possible by the dying and resuscitation process. It is
something we look forward to with anticipation, though we also know from Sacred
Scripture that we are responsible for preparing ourselves before that process of
consciousness transition. If we awaken unprepared, we follow our inherited
ruling love of doing everything for the sake of self only. This love exists in
the Grand Monster, in the hells of the human mind. But if we awaken from
resuscitation being prepared, we have undergone character reformation and
regeneration through resisting temptations. Then we have a heavenly ruling love
that pulls us irresistibly to conjugial life in the Grand Human.

The two worlds are tied together in an integral
coordination. Every event in the physical world of time and nature is called an
effect, and every event in the mental world of eternity and the Spiritual Sun,
is called a cause. The effect once it comes about, cannot exist by itself but
must have the cause within itself. This is the Divine Law of Correspondence
between the natural and the spiritual, between physical and mental. In the
discourse of many people, including scientists, the word “natural” is normally
opposed to “spiritual,” and the word “physical” is normally opposed to “mental.”
Few people have suspected or known that these two sets refer to each other.
“Natural” refers to “physical,” and “mental” refers to “spiritual.”
Consequently, natural and physical refer to phenomena in time, and these are
effects, while spiritual and mental refer to phenomena in eternity (not in
time), and these are causes.

These two, the physical and the mental, or in other words,
the natural and the spiritual, are correspondences and are fully determined by
the laws of correspondences. These are revealed in the Swedenborg Reports.
Correspondences apply only across discrete degrees. The physical and the mental
are in discrete degrees. This means that nothing from the physical can come into
contact with the mental – they are separate universes. But they are tied to each
other, point by point, phenomenon by phenomenon, object by object. A mental
object is in the world of causes, thus the spiritual world. That particular
mental object has an effect in the physical, and the two are functionally tied
and determined by each other. For instance, the existence of the substance of
water in the physical world is an effect whose cause is the existence of the
substance of truth in the mental world. The mental world of eternity is a
rational ether or expanse or field created by the Spiritual Sun. This phenomenon
was visually observed by Swedenborg over the course of 27 years of daily dual
consciousness, from age 57 to 84 when he was separated from his physical body in
1772. In his spiritual consciousness he was able to see the sensorimotor neos
appearing in the various
layers of the mental world of eternity, which is shaped
overall into the appearance of the Grand Human. Every person he talked to in
that spiritual consciousness (layer 4, Third Heaven) was able to see the
Spiritual Sun.

The Swedenborg Report describe the Spiritual Sun as an aura
that localizes the point of interchange between God and creation. God As He is
in Himself, infinite, unknowable, unapproachable created mental and physical
existence by means of this Divine Aura or Substance that flows out of Him and
into His creation. The Spiritual Sun is therefore called
Layer 1 of the mental
world of eternity. From the Spiritual Sun issue an endless variety of mental
substances out of which human minds are organically constructed. There are two
types of spiritual substances, each infinite in their own. One type is spiritual
light coming from the
Spiritual Sun, and the other type is spiritual heat that
is within the light. What is amazing is that the mental substance of spiritual
light is nothing else than truth upon which is based rationality and the
functioning purposeful order of reality. Further, the mental substance of
spiritual heat is nothing else than love from which is constructed our will to
live and survive.

When we are conceived and born God forms a spiritual body
that contains the three systems of mental organs we call affective, cognitive,
and sensorimotor. These organs are constructed out of the substances of
spiritual heat and light. Since spiritual heat (Divine Love) and spiritual light
(Divine Truth) are Divine substances they are living and immortal. Anything
constructed out of the substances of the Spiritual Sun is therefore
indestructible and permanent. Our spiritual body and its mental organs are born
into eternity and remain immortal and eternal. Our self and identity as a unique
person remains forever and is indestructible. That’s nice to know, right? I
thought so myself when I first found out, in 1981, having
found the Swedenborg
Reports in our university library on the campus of the University of Hawaii. My
wife and I were searching for Bible Commentaries and came across a shelf of 40
books written by one man, E. Swedenborg. We each took a volume home and have
kept reading, studying, and researching those volumes since then.

The order of reality has therefore been created with the
Spiritual Sun creating the mental world of eternity, and then, outside of that
by a discrete degree, creating the physical world in time. This is the
sequential order of phenomenal existence in creation –

Spiritual Sun àmental world of eternity
àphysical world in time

Sourceàcauseàeffect

These are created into discrete degrees, which
means that the substances of the Spiritual Sun are the constructing elements of
the mental world of eternity, and that these constructing elements do not become
part of each other. Our feelings are constructed out of spiritual heat, which is
Divine Love. That Divine substance is “in us” as components, but they are not
part of us. This is because Divine substance cannot mix with non-Divine. This is
the relationship of discrete degrees and correspondence. The Divine substance
out of which our affective organ is constructed is the cause, while our
affective operations and feelings of love, are the effects. Cause and effect are
discrete, one is within the other, but they cannot mix or touch.

Quoting from the Swedenborg Reports:

SS 28. It will be comprehended by the learned that these three may be called
end, cause and effect; also being, becoming and existing: the end is being,
the cause is becoming and the effect is existing. Consequently, in
everything that is complete there is a trine, called the first, the middle
and the last; also, the end, the cause and the effect; and also being (esse)
becoming, (fieri), and existing (existere). When one understands these
things then also does one understand that every Divine work is complete and
perfect in its last; and also that the whole is in the last, which is a
trine, because the prior things are simultaneously therein. (SS 28)

It is similar with what is mental in relation to the physical.
The mental is prior and is the cause, while the physical is posterior and is the
effect. The cause cannot mix with the effect but they correspond to each other
and act together, and live together. When the Source is within the cause and the
two together are in the effect, the sequence is completed in simultaneous order.
This is the order of reality. Here are some diagrams that depict and discuss
simultaneous order of a variety of things in discrete degrees:

Sentential neos pack a complete assertion. They are
philosophical and spiritual statements. By selecting all the sentential neos in
a neochart and sorting them alphabetically, we produce the poetry of neologisms.
The spiritual poetry of neologisms is hidden within each one of them. This
follows the universal principle expounded in the Swedenborg Reports that
successive degrees are together in simultaneous order.

The spiritual poetry of neologisms is “hidden” within each
neo.

In other words, what was successive in its construction is
now contained in its final form, which is the linguistic expression itself, born
in the reflection procedures of the cognitive organ, and which we call an idea.
If there is a motive or intention or desire in the affective organ that wants to
conjoint itself to this new born idea, then the conjunction gives fruit,
delivers a mental baby to the pair of mental organs. This mental baby is born in
the sensorimotor organ and is visible there. The three mental organ systems are
in discrete degrees and react to each other by correspondence. A feeling from
the affective organ is a different thing than a thought in the cognitive organ.
The two cannot be continuously or contiguously together except by
correspondence. They are made of different substances that cannot mix because
they are reciprocal to each other. Every part of one is the reciprocal of the
corresponding part of the other. They fit together to make a whole. Their
relationship or marriage is that of conjunction – one fitting into the other,
the two making a whole.

Your neochart is an index of your autobiographical record
as a human being. It is a representation of your intimate relationship to God.

Inside every neo you produce lives the Divine Neo in which
your neo is sourced. Your own neos are entry points to your relationship to God.
Your neo, sourced as it is in a Divine Neo, is the visible offspring you
produced and stands as proof of your intimate relationship to God. This intimacy
is obvious since the Divine Neo that is within your own neo is the relationship of
love. You had to make yourself love Divine Neos before you could construct any
neos of your own. This shows that there are fake neos that don’t have a Divine
Neo within them, but only the neo of a fake god, and this usually is the Self
elevated to a capital. Spiritually insane neos carry meaning that is constructed
from a hellish marriage between an evil hurtful love in the affective organ and
a distorted justification in the cognitive organ that makes it acceptable to
construct fake neos, God-less neos.

An instance today of this attitude is the negative bias in
science that excludes the Swedenborg Reports from its literature, research, and
teaching. The justification given (1) that knowledge of God is not science, and
(2) that other scientists cannot see what Swedenborg saw, is not
methodologically well founded, not true to the freedom of scientific inquiry. I
have examined the Swedenborg Reports from my training of half a century of
science, and have found them to be scientific. If others make this examination,
I am confident that they too will corroborate this conclusion. Hence to refuse
to examine the evidence (“negative bias” science), is a position not rationally
well founded. The love that keeps this bias going strong, generation after
generation of scientists, is not based in the Grand Human. It may have to do
with humanistic pride to want to keep God out of the formula of our lives. But
the community is endangered when God is denied, since God is the basis of
reality and sanity.

People who feel like rejecting this conclusion may want to
reconsider when they remember that the natural rational mind (layer 7Ce) where
we form these ideas and principles, is immersed in the negative bias of
materialism. People can elevate their consciousness to the interior-rational
layer (7Ci) that is informed by Sacred Scripture. There we learn that God
manages science, manages thoughts, manages correspondences, manages events,
manages reality. Knowing this, understanding it, trying to figure it out, makes
us really intelligent and spiritually sane, knowing our excellent future,
knowing how to get there.

There are three types of neos: Affective neos, Cognitive
neos, and Sensorimotor neos.

We are most aware of cognitive neos which are words put
together to express a new idea seen for the first time by the thinker or
speaker. This is a sense-making procedure involving a new configuration of
meaning elements. When we construct a cognitive neo we are responding to our
desire to capture in a semantic freeze frame this new meaning, this new rational
relationship that has entered our understanding and presented itself there to
our cognitive eye. We see something new in our mind, and we desire to codify it,
fossilize it, capture it into a cognitive unit, which is the neo. People talking
to each other produce a stream of cognitive neos for each other’s reception and
consummation.

When someone throws a cognitive neo at you, you receive it
into your cognitive organ where you apply sense-making procedures to it. The
sense-making procedure (also called “appraisal” or “interpretation”), is
supervised by the affective procedure of value-attachment, which will allow you
to consummate the incoming neos. Value-attaching a neo that you have just
appraised gives you the opportunity to consummate its meaning. You might for
instance say out loud, “Oh, that’s a wonderful expression” (or “strange
expression”), etc. Or you might say nothing, but still evaluate it to yourself
(“I like that expression.” Or “That’s such a truism. I should remember that.”).

Once the communicated neo is consummated, it is ready for
optimizing. This is where commercial, military, and educational uses might be
available. All patentable products or copyrightable text are neos born in the
cognitive organ of some inventor or writer.

Affective neo production includes new loves, new values,
new motives, new satisfactions, new ways of having fun and being happy, new ways
of loving others. Affective un-neos are the opposites of these.

Cognitive neo production includes new ideas, new concepts,
new patterns, new understandings, new descriptions, new doctrines from Sacred
Scripture.

Sensorimotor neo production includes new appearances, new
styles, new products, new ways of performing, new ways of interacting and
communicating.

One of the great cognitive neos that started modern science
was the heliocentric construction by
Copernicus of the
first correct arrangement of our solar system. Until then the un-neo of an
earth-centric universe reigned in the mind of philosophers and theologians.

It’s interesting to point out that the earth-centric
universe is not true physically, as proven by Galileo, but is true spiritually,
as proven in the Swedenborg Reports.

God chose our planet earth to effect the Divine
Incarnation. The reason is that of all the myriad of inhabited planets across
the billions of galaxies, this earth is the only one that has supported a
scientific civilization based on rational methods of thinking. In order for God
to complete the creation of the human race, He had to acquire for Himself a
Natural Body in the physical world. He had prepared this momentous event since
the beginning of the generations of people on this earth. God’s Natural Body
contained a Spiritual Body in which was a natural mind with its three layers
(corporeal (9), scientific (8), external rational (7e). It also contained a
spiritual mind with its three layers (First
Heaven (6), Second Heaven (5), and third Heaven (4).

Just as it is with all people born on this planet, God’s
Natural Mind was connected by inheritance to the societies of the Grand Monster.
In order to disconnect this inherited natural mind from the hell societies,
God-Man had to regenerate His inherited natural mind before He could make it
Divine, and hence, truly His Own. To accomplish this God-Man had to do what no
human being could, before Him. This was the very purpose for which He wanted to
be Incarnated and acquire for Himself a Divine Natural Body that He could take
to Himself in eternity, so that those in the afterlife of eternity could see Him
visually, and touch Him with their hands. This visible touchable God is called
The Divine Human. There is only One God. Until the Incarnation God could only be
seen as the Spiritual Sun. This is because He had not acquired for Himself a
Sensorimotor Body, which is the ultimate of human life. Swedenborg was told by
those who live in layer 4 consciousness (Third Heaven) that the Divine Human
sometimes appears to them face to face and talks with them.

The method that God-Man created to regenerate His Natural
Mind is the method that every human being after that, must use to regenerate his
or her natural mind. This method involves three steps:

(I) God-Man creates a new evolutionary layer in His natural
mind. This is
layer 7i or the interior-natural layer. This organ never existed in the
current split-brain spiritual race, though it did exist in the earlier
whole-brain celestial race that first lived on this earth (“the Most Ancient
Church”). The interior-natural layer (7i) that God-Man constructed in the human
natural mind actually completes the full evolution of the human race. With this
new interior organic system in our rational mind (layer 7i) we are able to raise
our consciousness to the spiritual and celestial level, almost as if our
spiritual mind became conscious. Through this entirely new ability our rational
mind has been able to evolve progressively for two thousand years and to produce
modern science, society, and a global civilization.

This evolution could not have occurred on any other planet
in the universe, and it is on this account that God was Incarnated on this
earth. Hence it is that viewed spiritually, this earth is the center of the
universe. All other human generations have been benefitted by the organic
evolution that took place on this earth. The entire human race is kept by God as
one organic unit called the Grand Human, and its opposite, the Grand Monster.
These organic entities operate as one so that whatever changes occur in one
place, affect all the other places, each in its own unique way.

You can see from this that neo production is the basis upon
which human evolution depends. Layer 7i neos are the higher correspondences of
Sacred Scripture that we can extract and organize into a science called
theistic
psychology.

The construction of novel sentences, novel expressions, novel words, novel
nonsense words, nicknames, names of endearment, titles, lyrics, names of people,
streets, places, products, lifestyle practices, etc. -- these are normal speech
acts all speakers of a language employ constantly. Children at play produce
novel verbalizations that may be called nonsense neologisms or meaningless
neologisms. I have neologued many romantic neologisms of endearment to describe
the diversity of conjugial delights her appearance and presence initiates in me.
According to my favorite author, no two things can ever be the same because all
created things, qualities, or events must reflect God's infinity (Swedenborg).
In other words, if things were not absolutely unique the created universe would
not accurately reflect the creativeness of God, in whom "infinite things make
one" (Swedenborg). In other words, all creations by God and all constructions by
people are existential neologisms.

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a voluminous writers. The current
publication of his entire works translated in English take up nearly 50 volumes.
About 37 of these were written after his dual consciousness was awakened at age
57. I have been studying these volumes since 1981 and have based my work on it
since then, especially my 18-volume project called "theistic
psychology." I coined the neologism "the Swedenborg Reports" to refer to
this collection of scientific reports on his observations during his dual
consciousness. He was quite surprised when he found himself one day being
conscious of two worlds simultaneously. One was the conscious awareness of the
natural world through his natural mind and physical body, the other was the
conscious awareness of the spiritual world through his spiritual mind and
spiritual body. Every human being is

, with a temporary
physical body attached to the natural mind, and a permanent or eternal spiritual
body attached to our spiritual mind. The Swedenborg Reports are the first
scientific reports on the afterlife world. No scientist before him had direct
observational access to the dying process and the resuscitation process that
takes place a few hours after the death of the physical body.

In 27 years of full conscious awareness of the spiritual world, Swedenborg
observed thousands of people being resuscitated and was able to talk to them,
both strangers and people he knew in this life. He also interviewed people who
had lived on this earth thousands of years ago, yet appeared in the "flower of
youth" in their heavenly habitations in eternity. Some of my favorite neologisms
coined by Swedenborg are these:

the Divine Human

the as-of-self

discrete degrees

conjugial love

interior sense of Sacred Scripture

natural, spiritual, celestial senses

science of correspondences

spiritual rational

celestial rational

spiritual natural

ruling love

spiritual heat or love

spiritual light or truth

Spiritual Sun

One Person in Three Divine Aspects

Grand Man (or Grand Human)

spiritual doctrine

Most Ancient Church

Pre-Adamites

In my attempt to render the Swedenborg Reports into contemporary psychological
ideas and methods I had to coin a variety of neologisms such as these:

The act of constructing neologisms has a spiritual dimension or significance
when examined from the perspective of the Swedenborg Reports. Note the
etymology of
neologism: neo=new and logos=word or meaning. Thus, neologism=new word or
meaning. The Swedenborg Reports present the view that a new spiritual age was
ushered in by God through Swedenborg's Writings in which God reveals through him
the science of correspondences that describes the laws by which God manages the
universe in its various
layers or discrete degrees. These laws are contained in
the "spiritual sense" of Sacred Scripture.

All Sacred Scripture is
Divine Speech
or Truth that has descended from God and was transformed from a celestial
meaning, to a spiritual meaning, to a natural meaning. The natural meaning of
Sacred Scripture is the literal meaning. By applying the knowledge of
correspondences to the verses and words of the literal sense of Sacred
Scripture, one can extract the spiritual and celestial senses that are hidden
within it. This extraction process is possible only when the individual is
enlightened by God to see these more interior truths within the literal sense.
Everyone is enlightened by God who is willing to stop acting and thinking from
selfish traits, and wants to become a "new person" who is altruistic and happy
with heavenly enjoyments.

This new human ability accessible to every human being now and in the endless
future is called the New Word or the New Church. Thus "neologism" has a
spiritual meaning that refers to this New Word, this new consciousness that God
is bringing about, a new step in the evolution of human consciousness. When we
coin a new term in science we are enacting the new human consciousness which is
a more interior thinking, more spiritual and rational, closer to truth, to
Divine Truth or Rationality.

The process of constructing neologisms must be connected to the process of
sharing them.

The adoption of neologisms by others and from others is a
spiritual sharing called "spiritual love" by Swedenborg. Every person is a
neologist and constructs neologisms every day in ordinary speaking, writing, and
reflecting. The process of thinking produces neologisms as a by product. To
speak is to create. The inventiveness of our thinking and speaking is produced
by our love -- what it is that we want and desire to express outwardly. The
nature of love is to strive to externalize. To achieve this external existence,
love transmutes by correspondence into thinking and reflecting, then at last
into doing and sensing.

Speaking more anatomically, every human being is a threefold self -- affective
self, cognitive self, sensorimotor self. Each self resides and operates within
its own specialized organ -- affective organ, cognitive organ, sensorimotor
organ. These
mental organs are fused into operational synergy by the Divine laws
of correspondences that activate and coordinate the
layers in every human mind.
The affective organ is a receptor for spiritual heat, while the cognitive organ
is a receptor of spiritual light. In other words, our feeling and willing are
subjective experiences resulting from the
operations of the affective organ
stimulated by spiritual heat. And similarly, our thinking and reflecting are
subjective experiences resulting from the operations of the cognitive organ
stimulated by spiritual light.

This operational synergy between the affective and the cognitive, between the
inner willing and its understanding, transforms itself by correspondence into an
outward existence in the sensorimotor organ, whose operations we experience as
sensing, moving, verbalizing, and doing. The threefold self is therefore an
anatomical construction activated by God through the inflow of spiritual heat
and light. What is truly amazing is that spiritual heat and light are
live
substances, not at all like physical heat and light that come from the natural
sun. In fact, the Swedenborg Reports fully establish the existence of the
Spiritual Sun in the mental world of eternity. From age 57 to his passing on at
84, Emanuel Swedenborg was a dual citizen, living a dual life, one through the
physical body in the natural world of time and place, and the other through the
spiritual body in the mental world of eternity, which he called "the spiritual
world." He daily wrote copious notes of his observations, which have been
published and translated and known as the Writings of Swedenborg. They amount to
about 30 volumes.

Swedenborg confirmed that the
Spiritual Sun is visible to all who raise their
threefold self consciousness to the highest layer of their mind called the
celestial-rational layer or "Third Heaven." He encountered and interviewed
numerous inhabitants of this mental layer of humanity. These people told him
that they had been born on earth in "Most Ancient" times and had been living in
their Third Heaven since their death. Swedenborg marveled at their appearance
and how they looked in their "early youth," which I take to mean around the age
of 20. And what was even more amazing and delightful to discover, was that they
were living as married couples in what Swedenborg called "conjugial love."

These Most ancient people were special and different from the race that evolved
subsequently on this earth. We are part of the
split-brain race whose genius and
mentality is called spiritual, while the Most Ancients were a celestial race and
their brain was not split into a left and right hemispheres. They were unable to
simulate, lie, or act outwardly contrary to what they felt inwardly. Whereas our
spiritual race can separate and break up the perfect synergy between willing and
thinking and speaking. Our threefold self has evolved to be able to act somewhat
independently of each other. As a result we are able to alternate between mental
states called heavenly, and others called hellish. For instance when people
drive in traffic it is common to alternate between relatively calm or good
states and negative or agitated states. Sometimes it is called the Jekyll-Hyde
syndrome. This kind of alternation is impossible for the celestial race, but for
us, not only is it normal but the ability that makes it possible for us to
regenerate the threefold self from its inherited negativity.

God works with every individual, continuously being active in the operations and
synergy of the threefold self.
From birth to endless eternity we are co-managers
with the
Divine
Psychologist in the domain of our mind.
God's management
procedures are carried out through two types of forces acting on us. One is
called "immediate influx" and the other is called "mediate influx." This refers
to the way spiritual heat and light from the Spiritual Sun enters or inflows our
threefold organs in the
spiritual body. God's Divine Love inflows as spiritual
heat substance, while God's Divine Truth inflows as spiritual light substance.
The "flow" of spiritual substances first enters the layer of the mind that is
closest to the Spiritual Sun. This is called the Third Heaven of mental
eternity. Every human being is born into time and born into eternity. One is
through a temporary physical body in the natural world, the other is through a
permanent spiritual body in the mental world of eternity (or the "spiritual
world").

Upon the death of the physical body, we lose contact with the physical world. A
few hours later we awaken in our spiritual body. Remember that all along, since
birth, our threefold self resides in the spiritual body in the mental world of
eternity. When we lose connection to the physical world, we merely continue as
before in the spiritual body. There is actual "passing on" or going anywhere.
Our self and consciousness, our thoughts feelings and sensations, are already in
the mental world of eternity. These have never been, and never could, exist in
the physical world, as for instance in the brain of the physical body. Feelings,
thoughts, and sensations are immaterial, hence cannot exist in something
material.

Swedenborg observed then interviewed thousands of people who have just been
resuscitated in the conscious awareness of the spiritual body. He describes the
30-hour process in some detail. He himself had been conscious in his spiritual
body from age 57 onward, while normally one regains spiritual consciousness only
after resuscitation, when natural consciousness ends. As a result of his dual
existence for 27 years, Swedenborg was able to write the Swedenborg Reports
which gives science for the first time in history, an empirical glimpse into the
world of the afterlife.

One of the most far reaching discoveries Swedenborg's has made is that the
threefold self has the spontaneous or automatic ability to project or create a
sensorimotor environment that reflects, represents, and corresponds to the
affective and cognitive organs acting in synergy. We have a foretaste of the
mental world of the afterlife in eternity right now, when we are engaged in
dreaming during sleep. We can gain a rational understanding of our afterlife if
we reflect on what we are doing when we are dreaming.

It is the threefold self that is doing the dreaming during sleep. When we
remember the dream upon awaking, especially when it is vivid, we can still
picture or visualize parts of it. Our dreams are sensorimotor expressions and
creations of the cognitive and affective organs acting together. We can actually
experience sensations in all our modalities -- we can see things, taste and
smell them, we can grab things, we can be held down by force or locked up in a
room, and we can talk, eat, make love, even fly and transport ourselves
instantly anywhere at any distance. This is the power of the sensorimotor organ
in giving us subjective experiences. And all the operations of the sensorimotor
organ are reactions by correspondence, to the operations in our affective and
cognitive organs.

This is what Swedenborg discovered when he became conscious in the
spiritual mind, the spiritual
layers of our mental anatomy, into which all human
beings arrive after resuscitation. The environment of the afterlife is somewhat
similar and congruent with the environment here on earth. When people are
resuscitated they see their spiritual body as similar to their former physical
body -- it looks like it, feels like it, operates like it. We also know this
from our dreams where the mental body (or dream body) of others, and our own
body, appear just like the physical body we are all familiar with. Of course
they are not similar in construction, the physical body being made of physical
matter from the physical planet and sun, while the spiritual body and its
threefold system of mental organs, is constructed out of the spiritual
substances of the Spiritual Sun. The spiritual body cannot die, cannot starve to
death, or get sick from germs and poisons, cannot be held by force in a room,
cannot be disciplined against its own will. The spiritual body and its mind is
forever free.

Swedenborg observed the interaction patterns between people in their life of
eternity. Everything you see around someone, and everything that happens there,
is a construction of our "ruling love." This refers to the affective hierarchy
that is embedded anatomically in our affective organ. We develop and grow this
hierarchy of feelings and intentions by the life choices we make every day, and
every hour or minute of the day. All choices that are freely made, that is not
coerced by circumstances or people, are called free will choices of love. It is
love that dictates and determines the choices we think about and execute. Since
we alternate all day between heavenly and hellish loves, we slowly and gradually
construct our love hierarchy, both in the heavenly category of operations, and
in the hellish. By the time we "pass on" in our consciousness from this world to
the next, which occurs at resuscitation, we "arrive" in the other life fully
equipped and loaded with our loves in both categories.

Swedenborg discovered that after resuscitation people go through a
psychologically and emotionally intense series of mental states during which
they are progressively exploring their love hierarchies through experiences and
events arranged and provided by the
Divine
Psychologist. This intense Divine
psychotherapy has but one purpose: to bring people in touch with their ruling
love and its hierarchy of sub-loves. At last all pretenses of the personality
fly out the window, leaving in place the ruling love and its total and absolute
control over the threefold self.

Now this ruling love takes over the person's existence. It dictates what the
person intends, desires, thinks, and does. Every love that is incompatible or
contrary to the ruling love, gets banished forever to the outmost regions of the
mind, and they just lie there, inert, no longer operative, as if no longer
alive. By the laws of existence in the mental world of eternity, the
sensorimotor environment or appearances begin to reflect the new person, now
stripped of anything ambivalent. The threefold self is now rendered completely
consistent, completely unified.

If the person's ruling love is a heavenly love, a love that is compatible with
heavenly order in the heavenly
layers of the mental world of eternity, then the
person begins a new life of eternity in the heavenly zones of the mental world
of humanity. Bit of the ruling love is a hellish one, a love that is
incompatible with heavenly order, the the person begins a new life in the
hellish zones of the mental world. Thus it is that some people live in heaven,
and others in hell.

Swedenborg explored the mental spaces of
Heaven and
Hell. He describes how
people live in habitations, cities, gardens, mountains, and how these
sensorimotor appearances are beautiful, benign, spacious, and diverse in the
case of the heavenly layers, and how they are ugly, noxious, cavernous, dark,
and filled with unspeakable horrors that the inhabitants there impose on each
other, playing out their infernal loves, hatreds, and insanities. When those who
are in hell are taken up in consciousness to the sensorimotor environment of the
heavens in their mind, they experience even more severe tortures of the mind
than the worst they have in hell. They feel torn apart from the inside seams of
their being, and they spontaneously precipitate themselves back into their
hellish loves, environment, and companions. There they feel revived due to
having their infernal loves back. For without one's loves, one is not alive.

Even more amazing discoveries are described in the Swedenborg Reports. He was
allowed to receive a bird's eye view of the mental world of eternity. And from
that perspective he confirmed the shape of the mental world of humanity: the
heavenly
layers are in the shape of a Grand Human in angelic appearance, and
below that, the hellish layers of the mind are in the shape of a Grand Monster.
Swedenborg's spiritual geography is therefore identical to mental anatomy. The
shape of our threefold self is a human form, and every organ is in the human
form as well. Swedenborg visited the various spiritual societies that form the
Grand Human and the Grand Monster, and he would refer to his location by
reference to the body parts. He would say that he is "in the province of the
liver" or in the region of the uterus, or heart, or lungs, or pancreas. The
Grand Human and Monster possess the organs of both sexes. People live in one
region or another as determined by their ruling love. Those who have compatible
ruling loves are close to one another, which means that they communicate with
one another more than with distant societies whose ruling love is at variance.

And even more amazing: the character or mentality of the people, as determined
by their ruling love, corresponds to the functions and properties of the organs
they live in.

And further, Swedenborg discovered that the societies in the Grand Human and
Monster are completely integrated and function synergistically. There is a
common "respiration" that affects every society mutually. There is a constant
"communication" of all operations in the threefold self of every person in a
society with all others in that society. And after that, there is a similar
reverberation of influence that spreads across the entire mind of humanity.
Every single love, thought, and sensation experienced by one human being
reverberates and is communicated to the entire network of human beings. As
Swedenborg puts it, in the eyes of God all human beings are integrated and seen
as one human being.

Now we can get back to the role of neologisms in all this.

All life is of love and all love reflects the infinity of God's love. Love is
behind all neologisms. Think of a sentence you wrote or said recently to
someone. Where did that sentence originate from? It came from some love,
something you wanted to say to someone, something you desired to express in
words, some perception or insight you've had by looking at something, or
thinking about it. Love comes out on the wings of some thought or idea, and
shows itself in the medium of sensorimotor appearances. Heaven is a sensorimotor
appearance created by heavenly loves acting through heavenly thoughts. Heavenly
loves enter our affective organ through spiritual heat, and transforms itself as
the accompanying thoughts, which then produce the environmental appearances,
objects, sensations, and actions.

Neologisms are therefore affective loves in cognitive form that create the word,
phrase, or sentence.

If you want to know the quality of a person's love, look at the neologisms they
produce. The meaning of each neologism is a spiritual map of where the love is
that produced it, or, that is within that meaning. Every meaning contains a
love. The meaning and the love become one, like husband and wife become one in
the
conjugial couples of our heavenly society. The marriage between our love and
its meaning engenders the coming into existence of a neologism. The parents of
the neologism are the love and its meaning. An operation in our affective organ
("love") forms a union with a corresponding operation in our cognitive organ
("meaning"), and the two together create a corresponding operation in our
sensorimotor organ, which is the neologism when it activates the speech
mechanisms, or the typing-texting of the fingers. The source of the neologism is
the love, and the love is an inflow of the spiritual heat into the affective
organ.

Such is the nature of infinite Divine love. Its infinite intensity comes out
into the created universe through the Spiritual Sun, which Swedenborg described
as an aura surrounding the Divine Human. This Spiritual Sun is the origin of all
loves in the mental world of eternity. God's infinite love is infinitely diverse
and abundant, which is why everything that comes into existence must be unique.
No two things that exist can be identical since every thing is created from some
love, and all loves from the Divine Human are infinite and unique. This means
that there are also infinite truths in God since every love must be married to
its own truth. All meanings are forms of truth, and also, forms of truth that
are distorted or falsified by the loves of each individual. Spiritual light is
truth substance itself, and spiritual heat is love substance itself. Swedenborg
interchanged the words love and good, and also the words truth and wisdom, from
which come knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom.

In a pointed sense neos are zones of community ignorance.
No one knows a neo prior to its construction by just one person. The diffusion
of neos to others is the basis of community existence. People obtain their ideas
and ideals from the neos of others. This is the process of cultural enrichment.
Neo production of a group or society is an index of its inventiveness,
adaptability, survivability. Cross-cultural sharing of neo production builds a
unified globalism anchored in mutual love. It is the antidote to warfare and
ethnocentric antipathy. People who benefit each other from their
neo-construction procedures feel integrated in a community of humanity. All neos
come down from God into the mind of its inventor. To love another’s neos is to
love God in whom the neos are sourced. God is at the center of every neo.

Neologisms are new meanings, hence new truths from new loves.

When a neologism is born in the mental world of eternity, its location in the
mind is either in the Grand Human or in the Grand Monster. Neologisms form a
continuous reverberation within the spiritual societies that gave birth to its
existence in the mind of an individual on earth, who is reflecting, speaking or
writing. From there the reverberation of neologisms continue to the adjoining
mental societies, and eventually every human being that ever existed or was
born, experiences the results of that original reverberation of the birth of the
neologism. Since every neologism is a unique spiritual child, it becomes the
source of endless new meanings being added to the human understanding. This
allows the generations to cumulate in intelligence and form ever more advanced,
more humane, more heavenly civilizations on earth.

Each new generation thus benefits from this more advanced mentality and is able
to create still more advanced and marvelous neologisms, that will further enrich
the spiritual societies of eternity. This endless cycle of progress in the
marriage of love and truth within each threefold self, is the organic mechanism
that God provides for the endless evolution of the Grand Human, the endless
expansion our loves and intelligences, with heaven and earth working together,
the spiritual-celestial and the natural-corporeal acting by correspondence as
one.

Be conscious of your neologisms and keep track of them. The
semantic map or web, they form reveals the nature of your immortal existence in eternity.

Commercial neologisms
like trademarks and product names are guaranteed by federal law the right to
remain unique. Although one can use the name for other than commercial purposes,
the owner can request a judge to prohibit certain ongoing uses by others of that
name or title. Literary neologisms cannot be copyrighted, and once introduced or
published, they are quotable and usable by anyone, including commercial
dictionaries. Scientific neologisms are considered literary products and have no
claims to ownership, except historical. Entertainment neologisms include titles of books, scripts, movies,
and television programs. These are treated as commercial products and ownership
of title and script are protected by federal copyright and patent laws.

Masculine neologisms
are fundamentally different from feminine
neologisms. One is the product of a man’s cognitive organ, while the other
is the product of the feminine cognitive organ. Nothing in a man can be like
anything in a woman, and vice versa (see
here). I have not made an empirical study of this, and if anyone does, or
already has, please email me if you would.
It is well known that childish neologisms,
that is, neologisms produced by the mind of children, revolves around the
sensorimotor awareness of self. They
respond with involvement and enthusiasm to little
phonological games and interactions that involve
verbalizing sound patterns and rhythms.
They like stories where the teller imitates
sounds of people, things, and animals.
When they are a little older, they move on from
sensorimotor neologisms to
cognitive neologisms and invent clever
and engaging limericks that people over the centuries have kept track of (the
name Opie comes to mind). Adolescents respond with heart to
patriotic neologisms that facilitate
the development of a sense of belonging and identity. Young adults fall in love
with affective neologisms or
romantic neologisms found in the
lyrics of songs. They also begin to be enmeshed in
political neologisms in which they
find a source of validation and self-confidence.
Religious neologisms gain their deeper
influence on people as they move into mature adulthood. Worshippers gain access
to the doctrines and belief systems embodied in the titles of rules, principles,
and creeds. In theistic psychology readers and students are introduced to the
correspondential sense of Divine
Neologisms, which are the words and expressions in Sacred Scripture.

As Swedenborg demonstrates, the
Divine Style of Sacred Scripture is composed from
Divine dictation or direct inspiration,
and is such that every word and expression in it carries three meanings: the
literal, the spiritual, and the celestial.
Literal Divine Neologisms are expressed in a natural language and in the
context of a particular cultural and historical milieu. This is why the literal
sense of Sacred Scripture from different religions and time epochs appear to
show independence or disagreements and contradictions. This is a
necessary consequence of socialization practices in all cultures and
places. We must provide intellectual
content to religion so that children can be socialized into it, and so that
adults can hold on to it with loyalty and belief, and pass it on to their
children. This generational process of
transmission of religious neologisms requires that their content be
congruent with the content of the culture and
belief systems that are being practiced.
Hence it is that all Sacred Scripture in the literal sense reflects the
content of the culture and civilization.
God manages the two together, namely, the evolution of civilization and culture,
and the progressive revelations in Sacred Scripture over the millennia and
centuries.

But the spiritual and celestial senses of Sacred Scripture
from different religions, cultures, and
epochs are not only compatible but similar in intellectual content. The
Swedenborg Reports demonstrate that
every Literal Divine Neologism
encapsulates within itself, a Spiritual
Divine Neologism, and within that, a
Celestial Divine Neologism. Everyone who studies the language or science of
correspondences revealed in the Swedenborg
Reports can perform this extraction
process from the literal-historical, to the
generalized spiritual, to the universal celestial. This
threefold embedding of meaning and
consciousness in Sacred Scripture is the
physiological process that activates and maintains the threefold self of
every individual – sensorimotor self, cognitive self, affective self.

The Literal Divine Neologisms of Sacred Scripture create
and establish the sensorimotor self of
every human being. The Spiritual
Divine Neologisms of Sacred Scripture create and establish the
cognitive self of every human being.
The Celestial Divine Neologisms of Sacred
Scripture create and establish the
affective self of every human being.

The sensorimotor self is constructed out of our
sensations, sensory involvements, and
motor readinesses and determinations.
The cognitive self is constructed out of our thoughts, reflections, images, and
understandings. The affective self is constructed out of our feelings, loves,
intentions, and desires. Hence it is that
human consciousness and civilization is
produced and managed by the Divine
Neologisms in Sacred Scripture. The specific cause-effect connection varies
with cultural and individual personality. The connection is more direct when
people acknowledge Sacred Scripture as
Divine Speech or Absolute and Divine Truth given to humanity for the growth
and development of every human being. The connection is more indirect when
people deny that Sacred Scripture is God’s Divine Speech or Word. The minds of people who reject the idea
that God is real are nevertheless equally managed by God, without which the
individual would cease to be human and
intelligent. God manages the mind of atheists and others who have a system
of beliefs that deny or exclude God, since without this Divine
omnipotent management or control, the
thoughts of the individual would not
remain coherent and adaptable to survival.

The Swedenborg Reports, written in the 18th
century, constitute a neologistic
revelation as opposed to a “new” revelation which implies something
different and foreign. But a neologistic revelation is a revelation about the
old and familiar, now seen in a “new light,” which means that “new truths” are
now seen in the old that were not seen by anyone before. Thus, the Swedenborg
Reports (more commonly known as “the Writings of Swedenborg”), are a neologistic
revelation about the Old Testament and the New Testament. These two Sacred
Scriptures were studied by thousands of serious scholars and scientists for many
centuries, generation after generation, and yet
not one single individual saw the correspondential meaning that is
hidden within these Sacred Scriptures. The Swedenborg Reports reveal the
correspondential sense of the Old and New Testaments. This is not a “new”
revelation, but a neologistic revelation about the old and familiar.

For instance, the New Testament has this verse:

nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the
kingdom of God is within you.(Luke 17:21)

What does it mean to say that “the kingdom of God is within
you”? Generations of thinkers have been involved in this issue.
Wikipedia summarizes a number of these
views, which I sample here:

(…)
Albert Schweitzer,
Rudolf Bultmann,
Norman Perrin and
Johannes Weiss argued that Jesus’ “Kingdom” was intended to be a wholly
futuristic kingdom. These scholars looked to the apocalyptic traditions of
various Jewish groups existing at the time of Jesus as the basis of their
study
[22],
[23],
[24],
[25]. In this view, Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher who would
bring about the end times and when he did not see the end of the cosmic
order coming Jesus embraced death as a tool in which to provoke God into
action.

The most common view of the “Kingdom” in recent scholarship is to embrace
the truths of both these parties – present reality and future manifestation.
Some scholars who take this view are
N.T.
Wright and
G.R. Beasley-Murray. In their views, the “Kingdom” that Jesus spoke of
will be fully realized in the future but it is also in a process of
“in-breaking” into the present. This means that Jesus’ deeds and words have
an immediate effect on the “Kingdom” even though it was not fully manifested
during his life. Even greater attention has been paid to the concept of the
“Kingdom of God” by scholars during the current third quest for the
historical Jesus (of which
N.T.
Wright is associated). (…)

The present aspect of the Kingdom refers to the changed state of heart or
mind (metanoia)
within Christians (see
Luke 17:20-21), emphasizing the spiritual nature of His Kingdom by
saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within (or among) you." The reported
activity of Jesus in healing diseases,
driving out demons,
teaching a new ethic for living, and offering a new hope in God to the
poor, is understood to be a demonstration of that Kingdom in action.

The
Seventh-day Adventist Church accepts the doctrine of the Kingdom of God
dividing it into two phases. These are, the Kingdom of Grace which was
established immediately after Adam and Eve sinned, and the Kingdom of Glory
which will be fully established when Christ returns to earth for the second
time.

As you can see from this no one was able to
think of the correspondential sense that lies hidden in this verse of Sacred
Scripture. Divine Speech is Divine Truth itself, and Divine Rationality and
Wisdom, and is the source of whatever rationality and understanding human beings
are permitted to borrow from God, and to possess “as-of self” in freedom. Every
word and expression of Sacred Scripture must have a correspondential sense, and
in fact, has a series of correspondential senses since these are arrayed in the
mental world of eternity, from its top, which is God, through the
layers of the
human heavens, and finally and ultimately, in the natural language in which
Sacred Scripture comes to us externally in our natural conscious mind. This is
called Divine Literal Neologisms, as mentioned above. This Divine
literal-historical sense is the ultimate transformation of Divine Speech as it
descends across the layers of the mental world of eternity (more commonly known
as the “spiritual world” or the afterlife of immortality).

The knowledge of correspondences revealed in the Swedenborg
Reports gives scientists a new technology
of knowledge extraction or a new
spiritual discourse analysis, that provides us with a
scientific methodology able to translate Divine Literal Neologisms
into Divine Spiritual Neologisms and into Divine Celestial Neologisms. This is
literally a Jacob’s Ladder by which we can carry our scientific methodology
across the array of discrete
layers in eternity (or “discrete degrees”), with
each layer or degree getting closer to God’s Divine Speech. The Writings of
Swedenborg are called “the New Word” but not in the sense of a “new” revelation,
but in the sense of a neologistic revelation of the Old and New Testament Sacred
Scriptures, which are then called “the Old Word.” To say it again, the New Word does not replace the Old Word, but
strengthens it, reveals its inner sense, which is infinite, because Divine
Speech is in it.

The Divine Literal Neologism written in one English version
as “the Kingdom of God is within you” is the external literal-historical sense
that contains within it an internal Divine Spiritual Neologism. What is this?
You can see from the Wikipedia summary that no one has known this. In the
Swedenborg Reports we finally have the answer through revelation of the
knowledge of correspondences, which are cause-effect connections between Divine
Literal Neologisms and Divine Spiritual Neologisms. The “Kingdom of God” in the
literal sense corresponds to the mental world of eternity in the spiritual
sense. This is the world which contains the mental
layers called “heaven” and
“hell.” At the moment of our death here on earth, the resuscitation process
begins. Swedenborg observed this process numerous times for 27 years. It takes
about 30 hours to complete, and then we awaken as if from sleep, and begin our
life of immortality in the mental world of eternity, supplied with a spiritual
body (which we have from birth), and a mental environment that responds or
reacts to our thoughts and feelings, as dreams respond and react to our wishes,
desires, or fears.

The Divine Literal Neologism “within you” corresponds in
its spiritual sense to the individual’s mind, which is born in the mental world
of eternity and exists there forever. Hence, the entire Divine Literal Neologism
“the Kingdom of God is within you” corresponds to the heavenly mental states we
have after resuscitation – “if, and only if, we love and enjoy these heavenly
mental states.” This is the Divine Celestial Neologism.

Neologisms come into
existence in the mental world of eternity and they remain there forever.
Neologisms are immortal spiritual objects
or entities. Neologisms float around in
the mental world of eternity like white and red corpuscles patrol the blood
stream in the circulatory system of the physical body, along with numerous other
elements and compounds, which are both beneficial and harmful, even deadly.
Evil neologisms are
anti-neologistic forces in the mental
world of eternity. Evil is defined in the Swedenborg Reports as the “corruption
of good,” while good is defined as
spiritual heat from the Spiritual Sun flowing into the
mental
layers of humanity and into our affective organ where they
produce good in our will or willing, that is, they incline us and propel us to “good
works” which are good uses. In other words, our good abilities,
skills, intentions, and thoughts
originate and are rooted in the inflowing spiritual heat from the Spiritual Sun. It is
an organic inflow and a biological process,
like the inflow of physical heat into a plant on earth, which has the
consequence of generating and producing
organic physiological operations by which the cells grow, reproduce, and
multiply, and with this organic bulk
comes the growth, health, and use of
the plant, that is, its usefulness to human beings, animals, other plants, and
the environment.

Everything that is good is the good that inflows from the
Spiritual Sun. Should this inflow cease for a moment,
every good then disappears. The
good that inflows belongs to and
remains part of the Spiritual Sun, just as the heat that inflows from the
physical sun into the plant on earth, is now
in the plant, and its atoms and cells,
but is not part of the plant. The heat remains part of the sun. And so the good
in us is not part of us, but is in us. And since this good in us is
God’s good through the Spiritual Sun,
it remains God’s good. And hence it is
that God is in us. Neologisms existing
and floating around in the mental world of eternity are
substantiveforms of cognitive
good in our mind. They are Divine Literal Neologisms ultimating, not in
Sacred Scripture, as we discussed above, but in human consciousness. God’s
Consciousness is a fusion of Divine Good and Divine Truth in Himself, in His
infinite Essence that cannot be fathomed or described or known by mere finite
human beings. In order for God to have a personal relationship with a human
individual, God-As-He-Is-in-Himself entered creation through the Spiritual Sun,
which is the emanation from His infinite Love and infinite Wisdom or
Rationality. Divine Truth is from God’s Divine Rationality or Wisdom, and good
is from God’s Divine Love. Our affective organ is an
organic receptor of spiritual heat, and our cognitive organ is an
organic receptor of spiritual light.

The Spiritual Sun is
the origin of all created substances. First there is a
living organic mental sphere or
ether of rationality created around
the Spiritual Sun. This living substance called
rational ether is the mental world of
eternity into which the human mind is born, and in which it exists forever as an
immortal individual, and collection of individuals called “spiritual societies”
in the Swedenborg Reports. It is constructed out of the
spiritual substances of heat and light
that endlessly and forever stream out of
the Spiritual Sun in infinite variety,
diversity, and quality. The mental world of eternity is
endless, borderless, boundless. It is
human through and through.
This is because God-As-He-Is-in-Himself is
Human, and thus God as He Is Outside
of Himself and in creation, is also Human. In fact, Swedenborg reports that
when he was present in consciousness in
Layer 4 of the mental world of eternity, he was able to see the Spiritual
Sun visually, and gives a description of it. And in fact, he reports that
everyone whose consciousness is raised to that layer, can see the Spiritual Sun.
He conversed about it with many who in the
afterlife existed in that layer, which is also called “the Third or Highest
Heaven.” When we arrive there after our
second death, we begin a life of
endless conjugial happiness in that
Divine Human layer, where God overlaps
with human beings through our
reception of HisOmniproprium. We
are then quasi-omniscient persons,
understanding everything about whatever we
think of. And our loves are then
heavenly loves in endless variety and
quality of good. Our thoughts are then
correspondences of Divine Celestial Neologisms. Our loves are then
correspondences of conjugial love in
endless variety and quality of good.

When we become
celestial angels we assume the role as
chief architects in the evolving construction of the mental world of eternity.
The loves that we then receive in our affective organ
from the Divine Human through the Spiritual Sun,
give rise by correspondences to the
loves and affections of people whose consciousness is in a
lower layer called the Second Heaven. The
correspondences of their loves and truths form the
loves and affections in the layer below
called the First Heaven. All three
Heavenly
layers in the mental world of eternity are
connected by organic correspondence to the
three layers that form the Natural Mind. You are reading this in
your consciousness in the natural mind, which has three layers: from top down:
the rational layer (layer 7), the sensual
or sensory layer (layer 8), and the
corporeal layer (layer 9). This is the layer that is
closest to the temporary physical body and its sensory input through
physical matter and energy (layer 12). In between is the spiritual body (layer
11), and the natural limbus or cutaneous
membrane (layer 10) (see
the
Anatomical Chart
of Layers).

One of the most significant Divine Neologisms appears in
this verse of the New Testament Sacred Scripture that begins the Gospel of John,
the last of the Four Gospels:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.
(John 1:1)

For the past two thousand years much has been written
about this mysterious sounding verse. It was not fully understood until the
Swedenborg Reports arrived on the scene in the eighteenth century. Today from
the perspective of theistic psychology this verse can receive a scientific
meaning that is rationally integrated into mental anatomy, spiritual geography,
and theology. This rational integration is based on nothing but Sacred
Scripture. And it is confirmed scientifically by observation and experiment over
the 27 years of Swedenborg’s daily life as a conscious dual citizen in both the
world of time and the world of eternity.

From this evidence we now can explain scientifically how it
is that “the Word was God.”

Several more things are revealed in the ensuing verses:

He was with God in the beginning.
3Through
him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4In
him was life, and that life was the light of men.
5The
light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a]
it.
14The
Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the One and Only,[d]
who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

In theistic psychology it is known that the creation of the
universe by God was by means of the Spiritual Sun, which is an emanation from
God and contains the substances of good and truth in infinite variety. Spiritual
heat within spiritual light, flowing out from the Spiritual Sun into creation,
produces the mental world of eternity where human beings are born and exist as
immortal feeling and thinking subjects.

Once the mental world of eternity was created, a physical
world in time and space was created. The content of the physical world was
fashioned in accordance with the content of the mental world of eternity. Hence
it is that every planet, every object, every physical property comes into
existence when inert physical matter from any sun or star, including the sun
itself, and all its components, corresponds through its property to some
property of the mental world of eternity. In this way nature is nothing but a
theater of the spiritual, and correspondences dictate the connection as cause
dictates effect.

The correspondential meaning of “the Word” in the above
passage is “Divine Truth,” and this is the same as “spiritual light from the
Spiritual Sun.” In other words, “the Word” or spiritual light creates all things
that are created. Spiritual light enters the cognitive organ of every individual
and sets it “online” with the Spiritual Sun, hence, God. Whatever flows out of
the Spiritual Sun is part of God and is God. This is because God cannot be
divided, so what is God in the Spiritual Sun must be God in the spiritual light
that flows from it.

Thus it is that God is in us, as written in the New
Testament Sacred Scripture.

We are not part of God, for this would mean that God is
divided. But the infinite can be within the finite as the spiritual is within
the natural, or as the whole is in the part. God in us does not mean that
anything whatsoever of ours is Divine, for this would bean that God is divided.
But God in us is necessary for every human being since without this there is no
source of life for the individual. God in us as His own spiritual light is what
we call “our life.” Should God in us cease as a continuous co-Presence in our
mental organs, we would no longer have any life.

It is said that “the Word became flesh.” This is a
historical reference to the birth of the Divine Child two thousand years ago. It
is known that Christians celebrate this event every year as Christmas. But
Sacred Scripture is not only relevant to religion, but also to science, even if
in a different way. For instance, if there is a God who is omnipotent (positive
bias in science), then it follows logically that Sacred Scripture is absolute
truth brought to humanity’s natural consciousness by God. Then it follows that
the Incarnation Event occurred as told in Sacred Scripture. Then it follows that
this is a scientific revelation about God. It is scientific because it is true,
and it shapes all of reality, its history, our evolution, and the current events
of our individual lives. However, all of this may be true and scientific, but it
is necessary to show this, and it is necessary that people understand it
rationally so that they themselves can think about it and talk about it.

I have attempted to do this in my textbooks on theistic
psychology. I welcome you to consult them online.

The “indeterminacy
of meaning” (1969) is one of my deepest insights prior to 1981 when I began
studying the
Swedenborg
Reports. After several years of researching the area of semantics, meaning,
verbal learning, language teaching, and discourse analysis, I came to the
realization that the meaning of a sentence or speech act cannot be determined by
the meaning of its words. We can paraphrase the sentence, translate it, analyze
it, but we will not arrive at its actual meaning it had in the interaction.
Recall that every exchange you have, every conversation, every nonverbal
interaction, is a unique event. This is the definition of “actual.” When A says
X to B, what actual joint meaning does X have, if the event is unique? When I
saw that the answer I constructed the neo titled “indexical meaning.”

In other words, meaning is indeterminate and indexical,
rather than fixed. It is a popular idea in the social sciences or psychology,
that communication involves “message and code transmission” from one person
(message sender) to another (message recipient). This idea involves another
idea, which is that meaning is a fixed code that can be codified in a dictionary
or in our memory. This idea certainly fits our educated common sense
understanding in daily life. We think about the email message or text message
that we received, and we see it codified in language text, fixed in content as
it careens across the miles, same when sent, same when received.

This is true. But it’s not yet about the meaning of the
message, only about the codified digital electronic signal that carries the
message as an outward envelope. The meaning of the message is not carried by the
technology. The meaning is organic, human, mental, spiritual. Meaning and text
or message are in different discrete degrees. Computers cannot think with
meaning, and yet they can translate documents. Translating is possible because
it involves a fixed code, and this code carries the message within which is the
meaning. The carrier is physical and can carry only physical messages and text.
The mental content or meaning cannot be carried by the physical carrier.

Once you see this clearly and rationally, thus
scientifically, you will understand that actual meaning is a mental transfer
process involving two minds. Remarkably, this simple and basic solution is not
available to non-theistic psychology which denies the dualism of human reality
as being simultaneously in time and in eternity. This is obvious when you recall
the idea that we are “born into eternity” with a permanent spiritual body, which
is connected by correspondence to a temporary physical body. This procedure of
temporary dual citizenship is necessary for our spiritual development, which in
turn is necessary to insure the heavenly conjugial happiness of our immortal
life in eternity. What are the two people doing when they are having a physical
interaction, such as “Hi. How are you?” “Hi. Pretty good. You?” The interaction
is taken by both participants to be appropriate speech acts produced as a normal
greeting exchange for the two of them.

There is a well practiced sensorimotor coordination in the
performance of the exchange. The meaning is constructed as a sense-making
procedure of the cognitive organ (C), as it is applied to the incoming
sensorimotor information (S). This sense-making is also called appraising the
incoming information. When person M says to person N in that exchange, “Hi. How
are you?”, then person N sees and hears it (S), makes sense of it (C), and
attaches some value to it (A), as for example, the judgment that “it’s normal.”
This affective satisficing procedure is the occasion for the affective
optimizing procedure to be applied to it. Our normal state of sensorimotor
vigilance (S) in public places includes a motivational readiness or
intentionality (A) to show an appropriate overt sensorimotor performance (S)
that matches that of the other person. This is a social requisite for normalcy.
“Accounted non-reactions” may be acceptable later, as for instance, “Sorry I
didn’t say Hi. I’m incredibly overloaded in my schedule.” Not making up for
ignoring a greeting is value-attached as abnormal or hostile. Hence there is a
sanctioned social obligation to respond to a greeting, or else to account for it
later.

All this is very familiar to all of us, though it may sound
technical to discuss it. But it’s worth it because it gives us more skills in
rational thinking. If you examine the details of your participation in an
exchange you will observe that we use indexical meaning when appraising or
performing cognitive sense-making procedures, applied to what we noticed in our
physical environment. We notice the person walking towards us, and we are
motivationally ready to optimize the exchange. We notice the person’s normal
performance of greeting initiation (“Hi. How are you?”). We satisfice the
performance as a normal greeting, and we optimize it by our coordinated
performance (“Hi. Pretty good. You?”).

Where is the meaning of the exchange?

Recall that the physical exchange is a natural event that
must correspond to a spiritual event, the latter being the cause of the former.
What spiritual events cause the natural events that produce greeting rituals?
Mental events are spiritual. They are made of the operations of the affective
(A), cognitive (C), and sensorimotor (S) systems of the spiritual body. The
“mind” is the spiritual body with its three systems of operations from which we
have feelings (A), thoughts (C), and sensations (S). The meaning in the greeting
exchange is the desire or love (A) of one person being consummated in another.
For instance, each person is motivated (A) to make a normal impression (C) in
the routine exchange (S). To accomplish this, each person has access to
overlapping indexical meanings for each particular exchange they have together.
For instance they can vary the tone of voice or facial expression in order to
facilitate the consummation process of a particular affection. For instance, we
might like to create a good impression by being a little funny in the
performance of the greeting exchange.

You can see from this that there are no limits to the
particular ways in which you can select from the indexical meaning of this
situation between them. You can be serious, or downcast, energetic or ready to
drop. You can be friendly or neutral, depending on the specific affection or
love that is striving to be consummated. If you are motivated to achieve closer
friendship you select an indexical meaning that the other person can satisfice
for your intention for greater closeness. When you witness in the other person
the evidence for reception of your intention, then your love for greater
closeness is consummated. You feel satisfaction when your motive is achieved.
Now you can form another motive that progresses your love still further. This is
the meaning of the greeting exchange that was performed. The meaning of the
greeting is the exchange of love in it.

The indeterminacy of meaning in a ritualized greeting
exchange suggests that when semantic and cultural content is involved in the
exchange, the meaning will be still more involved and indexical. In general, the
more complex the meaning exchange, the more indexical it is. Every exchange is
unique and is constructed out of unique neo production procedures in the three
organic mental systems (A, C, S).

The indeterminacy of meaning insures that all actuality
will be composed of only neos, and no repetitions can occur. This principle is a
rational consequence of God’s omnipotence. In God infinite things make one.
God’s Mind is the source of infinite creations. The good and truth streaming out
of the Spiritual Sun are infinite in variety and diversity and consequently,
uniqueness. Nothing that exists can be exactly like anything else that exists.
This is because God is the source of all that exists, and God’s infinity
produces the uniqueness of all created things.

Sacred Scripture is a Divine Neo production. Infinite ideas
and truths are enclosed within every word. Swedenborg talked to people in layer
4 (Third Heaven), the highest human intelligence yet attained. They confirmed
that they can perceive the uniqueness of every object or event. They confirmed
that infinite things are enclosed in every Divine Neo in Sacred Scripture.

Consider the following situation:

A man walks into store and says, “Do you sell triple A
batteries?” The clerk reaches over to a display case and places a box of six on
the counter. Question: If meaning is indeterminate, how did the clerk know to
hand the customer the box of AAA batteries? Answer: The clerk applied indexical
meaning procedures to come up with the box. For instance:

“This man is asking if we sell AAA batteries. He wants to
buy a box of them. I’ll just hand it to him.” This sense-making procedure fits
the sensorimotor exchange sufficiently to be judged as normal for the situation.
It happens regularly that someone asks if we sell the batteries and they buy the
box when I put it in front of them. Except for that other time, but that was
abnormal. The man wanted to break a 20 dollar bill and he didn’t want the
batteries. So he said never mind the batteries, he needs the money for something
else, but can I please break the twenty for him. Oh, yeah, there was this other
time when the man was trying to rob me, so when I put the batteries in front of
him, he pulled a gun.”

Each of us performs mental procedures when we are having a
communicative exchange. Talking is mentally exchanging. In fact, Swedenborg
reports that after resuscitation in our spiritual mind, we communicate more by
thought-language than by verbal-language. The human thought-language is
universal and unlearned, unlike the various natural languages we use in our
natural mind, which have to be learned. Swedenborg communicated in
thought-language with people from other planets and galactic systems, completely
independent of each other in contact and development. And yet, they all
communicated by the same human thought-language.

This does not mean that they necessarily understand each
other in the same way. In fact, Swedenborg encountered varieties of human
thinking and loving, vastly different from ours on this earth. In some
situations he mentions that “intermediate spirits” or mental states, were
required for him to place himself into those non-earth meanings or
consciousness. The intermediate minds were able to serve as a kind of
interpretive bridge between Swedenborg’s mental states and the mental states of
the aliens (or vastly different human beings). The differences are called
differences in “genius” and are too strange or stressful to contact directly.
Hence the intermediate spirits made this indirect contact possible given that
they partook to some extent of both types of human genius. Despite these great
differences in loves and thinking, the same universal human thought-language is
used by all human beings after their resuscitation.

Quoting from the Swedenborg Reports:

EU 1. Since, from the Divine mercy of the Lord, the interiors, which
are of my spirit, have been opened to me, and thereby it has been granted me
to speak with spirits and angels, not only with those who are near our
earth, but also with those who are near other earths; because I had a desire
to know whether there are other earths, and what their nature is, and the
quality of their inhabitants, therefore it has been granted me by the Lord
to speak and converse with spirits and angels who are from other earths,
with some for a day, with some for a week, and with some for months; and to
be instructed by them concerning the earths, from which and near which they
were; and concerning the lives, customs, and worship of the inhabitants
thereof, and of various other things worthy to be related: and because in
this manner it has been granted me to know these things, it is permitted to
describe them from what has been heard and seen. (…) (EU 1)

EU
6. There are spirits [ =
people after their resuscitation ]
whose sole study is to acquire to themselves knowledges, because they are
delighted only with knowledges. Therefore these spirits are permitted to
wander about, and even to pass out of this solar system into others, and to
procure for themselves knowledges. They have declared that there are earths
inhabited by men, not only in this solar system, but also out of it in the
starry heaven, to an immense number. These spirits are from the planet
Mercury. (EU 6)

EU 50.
My long continued association with the spirits of Jupiter proved
to me that they are more upright than the spirits of many other worlds.When they arrived, their coming, their stay and the influence they
exerted were so gentle and sweet as to defy expression.In the next life the character of each spirit reveals itself in his
influence, which is a sharing of his affection.Uprightness is revealed by gentleness and sweetness, by gentleness
because he is fearful of doing harm, and by sweetness because he loves to do
good.I could very clearly tell
apart the gentleness and sweetness of good spirits from our world from that
of theirs.They said that when
any mild dispute arises between them, there is to be seen a kind of thin
shaft of light, such as lightning often produces, or a band filled with
flashing and moving stars.But a
dispute among them is quickly settled.Stars which flash and at the same time move indicate falsity;
flashing stars which are fixed indicate truth.So the former type indicates a dispute. (EU 50)

EU
55. I was further
informed by the spirits from that world [EU 50] about various matters
concerning its inhabitants, such as their way of moving, and their food and
houses.When moving, they do not
walk upright like the inhabitants of this and many other worlds; nor do they
go on all fours like animals, but when they walk they help themselves with
the flat of their hands, at every other pace half rising to their feet.As they move, at every third pace they turn their faces to one side
and look behind them, making a slight twist, quickly accomplished, of the
body.This is because they think
it impolite to be seen by others except face to face.

[2]While they walk in this
fashion, they always keep their faces up, as we do, so that they can see the
sky as well as the ground.They
do not keep their gaze fixed on the ground, a practice they call
reprehensible.The worst sort of
people among them do this, and if they do not become used to lifting up
their faces, they are banished from their community.

[3]When, however, they sit
down, they look erect like people in our world as far as the upper part of
the body is concerned, but they squat cross-legged.They take great care, not only when walking, but also when sitting,
to avoid being seen from behind, but only in the face.In fact, they rather like to be seen face to face, since this
displays their mind.They never
display a facial expression which does not match their mind, something they
find impossible.Those present
can by this means see quite plainly what another's intentions towards them
are, since they do not hide them, especially whether their apparent
friendliness is genuine or forced.The spirits from there demonstrated this to me and their angels
confirmed it.As a result their
spirits too do not appear to walk upright, but rather like swimmers to
assist their progress with their hands, looking around them from time to
time. (EU 55)

EU 102. The spirits of the earth Saturn came from afar into view, and there
was then opened a living communication between them and such spirits of our
earth. The latter, on thus perceiving the former, became as if insane, and
began to infest them, by infusing unworthy suggestions concerning faith, and
also concerning the Lord; and whilst abusing them with these invectives and
insults, they also cast themselves into the midst of them, and from the
insanity in which they were, they endeavored to do evil to them. But the
spirits of Saturn feared nothing, because they were secure and in
tranquility; whereas the spirits of our earth, when they were in the midst
of them, began to be tortured, and to respire with difficulty, and so they
cast themselves out, one in this way and another that, till they all
disappeared.

The spirits who were present perceived from this, what is the quality of the
natural man when separate from the spiritual, and when he comes into a
spiritual sphere, namely, that he is insane; for the natural man separate
from the spiritual is wise only from the world, and not from heaven; and he
who is wise only from the world, believes nothing but what be can apprehend
with his senses, and the things which he believes he believes from the
fallacies of the senses, which, unless they are removed by an influx from
the spiritual world, produce falsities. Hence it is that spiritual things to
him are not anything, insomuch that he can scarcely bear to hear mention
made of anything spiritual; wherefore such become insane when they are kept
in a spiritual sphere. It is otherwise during their abode in the world,
where they either think naturally concerning spiritual things, or avert
their ears that they may not hear them; that is, they hear and do not
attend.

It was also manifest from this experience, that the natural man cannot
introduce himself into the spiritual, that is, ascend; but when man is in
faith, and thereby in spiritual life, in this case the spiritual man flows
into the natural, and thinks therein. For there is given a spiritual influx,
that is, an influx from the spiritual world into the natural, but not the
reverse. (EU 102)

EU148. A THIRD EARTH IN
THE STARRY HEAVEN, ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.

Some spirits appeared at a distance who were not willing to come near. The
reason was that they could not be with the spirits of our earth who were
then around me. From this I perceived that they were from another earth, and
afterward I was told that they were from a certain earth in the universe;
but where that earth is, I was not informed. These spirits were altogether
unwilling to think of their body, and indeed of anything corporeal and
material, differently from the spirits from our earth. This was why they
were not willing to come near. But still after the removal of some of the
spirits of our earth, they came nearer and spoke with me. But then anxiety
was felt, arising from the collision of spheres; for spiritual spheres
encompass all spirits and societies of spirits; and because they flow forth
from the life of the affections and of the thoughts therefrom, therefore
where there are opposing affections there arises collision, and thence
anxiety. The spirits of our earth said that they did not dare to approach
them, since when they were approaching, they not only were seized with
anxiety, but also appeared to themselves as if bound hand and foot with
serpents, from which they could not be loosed until they withdrew. This
appearance had its origin from correspondence; for the spirits of our earth
have reference in the Greatest Man to the external sense, thus to the
corporeal sensual, and this sensual is represented in the other life by
serpents.

# Man's external sensual is represented in the spiritual world by serpents,
because it is in the lowest things, and in comparison with the interiors
with man, lies on the ground and as it were creeps; and that they were
thence called serpents, who reasoned from that sensual (n. 195-197, 6398,
6949). (EU 148)

EU149. Because the nature
of the spirits of that earth is such, they appear before the eyes of other
spirits, not like others, in a manifest human form, but like clouds, and for
the most part like a dark cloud, in which is mingled something of a bright
human appearance. But they said that they are white within, and that when
they become angels, the dark color is turned into a beautiful blue, as was
also shown to me. I asked whether they had such an idea of their body, when
they lived as men in the world. They said that the men of their earth make
no account of their bodies, but only of the spirit in the body, because they
know that this is to live to eternity, but the body to perish. They also
said that many on their earth believe that the spirit of the body has been
from eternity, and was infused into the body at conception. But they added
that they now know it is not so, and that they repent having been in such a
false opinion. (EU 149)

EU150. When I asked
whether they wished to see anything on our earth, and said that this could
be done through my eyes (see above n. 135), they answered at first that they
could not, and then that they did not wish it; since they would see only
earthly and material things, from which they remove their thoughts as far as
possible. But still there were represented before them magnificent palaces,
like those of kings and princes on our earth, for such things can be
represented before spirits, and when represented, they appear altogether as
if they were there. But the spirits from that earth set no value upon them,
calling them marble images; and then they told me that they had more
magnificent ones, which are their sanctuaries, not of stone, but of wood.
When it was said to them that these were still earthly, they answered that
they were not, but heavenly; because when they look upon them, they have not
an earthly, but a heavenly idea, believing that they will also see similar
ones in heaven after death. (EU 150)

EU168. A FIFTH EARTH IN
THE STARRY HEAVEN, ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.

I was led again to another earth which is in the universe out of our solar
system, and this also by changes of state, continued for nearly twelve
hours. There were in company with me several spirits and angels from our
earth, with whom I discoursed in the way or in that progression. I was
carried at times obliquely upwards and obliquely downwards, continually
towards the right, which in the other life is towards the south. In only two
places I saw spirits, and in one I spoke with them. In the way or
progression I was enabled to observe how immense is the Lord's heaven, which
is for angels and spirits; for from the parts uninhabited I was led to
conclude that it was so immense, that if there were many myriads of earths,
and on each earth a multitude of men as great as in ours, there would still
be a place of abode for them to eternity, and it would never be filled. This
I was enabled to conclude from a comparison made with the extent of the
heaven which is about our earth and designed for it, which extent was
respectively so small, that it did not equal a hundred millionth part of the
extent uninhabited. (EU 168)

EU170. The spirits with
whom I now discoursed were from the northern part of their earth. I was
afterwards led to others who were on the western part. These also, wishing
to discover who and what I was, immediately said that there was nothing in
me but evil, thinking thus to deter me from approaching nearer. It was
perceived that this was their manner of accosting all who came to them; but
it was granted me to reply that I well knew it to be so, and that with them
also there was nothing but evil, by reason that every one is born in evil,
and therefore whatever comes from man, spirit, and angel, as from what is
his own, or his proprium, is nothing but evil, inasmuch as all good with
every one is from the Lord. Hence they perceived that I was in the truth,
and I was admitted to speak with them. They then showed me their idea
concerning evil with man, and concerning good from the Lord, how they are
separated from each other.

They placed one near the other, almost contiguous, but still distinct, yet
as it were bound together in a manner inexpressible, so that the good led
the evil, and restrained it, insomuch that it was not allowed it to act at
pleasure; and thus the good bent the evil in whatever direction desired,
without the evil knowing it. In this manner they exhibited the dominion of
good over evil, and at the same time a state of freedom. They then asked how
the Lord appeared with the angels from our earth. I said that He appears in
the sun as Man, encompassed therein with solar fire, whence the angels in
the heavens have all light; and that the heat which proceeds thence is the
Divine good, and that the light which proceeds thence is the Divine truth,
each from the Divine love, which is the fire appearing around the Lord in
that sun.

That sun, however, appears only to the angels in heaven, and not to the
spirits who are beneath, since they are more removed from the reception of
the good of love and of the truth of faith, than the angels who are in the
heavens (see above, n. 40). It was granted them thus to inquire concerning
the Lord, and concerning His appearance before the angels from our earth,
because it then pleased the Lord to present Himself before them, and to
reduce into order the things which had been disturbed by the evil spirits of
whom they complained. This also was the reason why I was led thither, that I
might see these things. (EU 170)

EU176. To an inquiry
concerning their houses, they said that they are low, of wood, with a flat
roof, around which project caves sloping downward; and that in the front
part dwell the husband and wife, in the next adjoining part the children,
and after them the maid-servants and men-servants. Of their food they said
that they drink milk with water, and that they have the milk from cows,
which are woolly like sheep. Of their life they said that they walk naked,
and that to them nakedness is not a cause of shame; also that their social
interaction is with those who are within their families. (EU 176)

The mental
layers of eternity, of which our individual mind
is a component, are not to be pictured like horizontal arrays across a page, but
like the inside anatomical components of the human body. Each layer corresponds
to different anatomical, physiological,
and biochemical components and systems.
Swedenborg navigated his consciousness
across the entire geographical region of
spiritual societies in the Grand Human and Grand Monster. He would meet with
and explore the mentality of people in various societies of the Grand Human or
Grand Monster. He would describe the quality of consciousness of the people in
“the region of the right eye” vs. the left eye, or the region of the heart and
“loins” vs. the region of the pancreas, right hemisphere of the brain, or the
cranium, etc. He discovered that the mind-body connection exists by the laws of
correspondences that integrate the layers
and its systemic operations. In other words, the laws of correspondences are
cause effect relations between physical and mental, between body and mind, and
between the natural things and spiritual things.
Spiritual things are mental things
since they are operations of the affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor organs.
Speaking from our subjective experience,
spiritual, immortal, and eternal things are no other than
sensations, cognitions, and loves.
This is because the mental world of
loves, thoughts, and sensations is
eternal, non-physical, and outside time, while what is physical is in time
and space, thus is temporary, limited,
and conditional.

Every biological component and function of the body
corresponds to some particular mental
component and function of the mind. For instance, the physiological function
of the lungs corresponds to the mental operation of the cognitive organ. The
sub-components of the lungs, such as the air sacs, or the rib cage that encloses
it and protects it, correspond to specific
functions of thinking, reasoning, and
imagining. The anatomy and physiology of the body are
correspondences to the mentality of the
people who exist or congregate in
that geographical region of the Grand
Human and Grand Monster. For more details on this
bio-geographical map, chart, or
taxonomy see
Physiological Correspondences by Worcester (1889).

What is involved in the idea of “mentality of the people”?
Every quality and variety of human mentality is formed by means of neologisms.
The categories of neologisms are the categories of human mentality. The universe
of neologisms exists as a collection of individuals arranged in sub-collections
that portray the human anatomical form, its outside and its inside. Neologisms
are experienced subjectively as new meaning, new insight, new understanding, new
causal connection, new truth, new power. Neologisms bring new consciousness, new
perceptions, new wisdom and rationality. The word “new” in the correspondential
sense involves renewal, or new birth into a higher plane of consciousness,
goodness, love, and connectivity with the
Divine
Psychologist. “Neo” means new, hence higher and more excellent in humanity.
While “-logism” is from “logos,” meaning word, idea, meaning, truth. “Neologism”
in the spiritual sense therefore means “New Word” or a higher form of neologisms
out of which our new higher consciousness is formed into a plane or layer of
operation that is of a superior quality and virtue.

Collective Neologisms

A form of collective
spiritual neologisms is described in the Swedenborg Reports as follows:

[Note: “Good
spirits” are the people who live in anatomical layer 6 of the mental world of
eternity, and “angelic spirits” in layer 5. Those who inhabit the highest human
layer (4) are referred to as “angels.”]

AC 1648. There is a
speech of good spirits, and also of angelic spirits, which is a simultaneous
speech of many, especially in circles or choirs, concerning which of the
Lord's Divine mercy hereafter. The speech in choirs has often been heard by
me; it has a cadence, as if in rhythm. They have no thought about the words
or ideas, for into these their sentiments flow spontaneously. No words or
ideas flow in which multiply the sense, or draw it away to something else,
or to which anything artificial adheres, or that seems to them elegant from
self, or from self-love, for such things would at once cause disturbance.
They do not inhere in any word; they think of the sense; the words follow
spontaneously from the sense itself. They come to a close in unities, for
the most part simple; but when in those which are compound, they turn by an
accent to the next. These things are the result of their thinking and
speaking in society; hence the form of the speech has a cadence in
accordance with the connection and unanimity of the society. Such was once
the form of songs; and such is that of the Psalms of David. (AC 1648)

In other words,
after our resuscitation we think and speak differently than the natural
languages we use here. This spontaneous and automatic way of talking and
thinking reflects the greater
collectivity of the social-psychological environment in the mental world of
eternity, in comparison to the social relations we have now through our
physical bodies. Our choirs here require practiced and deliberate training to
achieve the appearance of performing
collective neologisms. But the choirs after our resuscitation (which occurs
30 hours after death), proceed without training or direction, completely
spontaneously. This occurs because all the individuals in that group or
collectivity are activated in their affective organ by the same series of
sentiment.

This “simultaneous speech of many” or “speech in choirs”
has a “cadence, as if in rhythm.” The normal thinking mode is suspended and each
individual spontaneously excludes any thought or focus on self and what is the
person’s own. Thus, the normal single independent individual thinker is
transformed into a collective self or a
group self. In this mental state we experience a richer and higher form of
thinking, meaning, and consciousness.
This elevation of the individual through the collective self is embodied in the
sensorimotor environment that Swedenborg witnessed. The “thinking and speaking
in society“ produces collective neologisms that enlighten and pacify their
character and experience.

AC 1649. Wonderful to say, this kind of speech, possessing the
rhythmical or harmonic cadence of songs, is natural to spirits. They speak
so among themselves, although they are not aware of it. Immediately after
death souls come into the habit of speaking in this way. I have been
initiated into the same, and it has at last become familiar. The reason
their speech is of this nature, is that they speak in society, which for the
most part they are not aware of: a very clear proof that they are all
distinguished into societies, and that consequently all things fall into the
forms of the societies. (AC 1649)

After our resuscitation into the mental world of eternity
we become collective personalities speaking and thinking collective spiritual
neologisms – but without being aware that it is collective. Swedenborg had that
awareness because of his dual citizenship, which allowed him to contrast his
speech through his physical body in his horizontal community in Sweden, vs. his
speech through the spiritual body in the vertical community of the mental world
of eternity. This is called “vertical” because distance is determined by
similarity and difference of sentiments, consequently of thinking and speech.
Our horizontal community here is determined by physical distance, independently
of social and psychological similarity. After resuscitation we can no longer
visit and travel to places in our vertical community that are different and at
variance with our norms, ideas, and loves. Our travels and visits in the mental
world of eternity can only take place by modification of our mental state, that
is, of our loves and thoughts. This is how Swedenborg navigated through the
mental ether of eternity. This
process of mental change often required the
intermediate neologisms of
“intermediate spirits” whose sentiments and thinking were closer to Swedenborg’s
but not yet close enough to his target audience of people who had been born on
different planets and were of a different genius or mentality from earthlings.
When the psychological distance was very great, a series of intermediate
neologisms were required that took Swedenborg several days of processing or
mental travel (counting his earth days in time).

Swedenborg describes the existence of
performative neologisms in the mental world of eternity, to which we
are all headed from here, so that each of us will witness these
spiritual human gyres and what’s more,
will participate in them! (I am looking forward to that.)

AC 3889. In order that I might know not only that there is a
correspondence of the celestial things which are of love with the motions of
the heart, and of the spiritual things which are of faith from love with the
motions of the lungs, but also how the case is with this correspondence, it
was given me for a considerable space of time to be among the angels, who
showed it me to the life. By a wonderful and indescribable flowing into
gyres they formed a semblance of a heart and another semblance of lungs,
together with all the interior and exterior contextures that are in them.
They then followed the flow of heaven in a free way; for heaven is in the
endeavor toward such a form, from the influx of love from the Lord. Thus
they presented the several parts that are in the heart; and afterwards the
union between the heart and the lungs, which they also represented by the
marriage of good and truth.

From this it was evident that the heart corresponds to the celestial which
is of good, and the lungs to the spiritual which is of truth; and that the
conjunction of these two in a material form is precisely as is that of the
heart and the lungs. I was also told that the case is similar in the body
throughout (that is, in its several members, organs, and viscera) in regard
to the things therein which are of the heart, and those which are of the
lungs; for where both do not act, and each distinctly take its turn, there
cannot be any motion of life from any principle of the will, nor any feeling
of life from any principle of the understanding. (AC 3889)

These performative
spiritual neologisms executed in our anatomical layer 4, or “Third Heaven of
angels” where Swedenborg was travelling in the mental world of eternity, are
different from ordinary verbal neologisms
that are performed by collective speech. The performative gyres communicate
new meaning and consciousness that
Swedenborg could not describe in natural
verbal neologisms and called them “wonderful and indescribable.” From the
meaning communicated through these performative spiritual neologisms, Swedenborg
received a whole new insight and understanding about how the effects of the
heart inflow into the lungs, this action being a correspondence to how the good
we receive in the affective organ directs and fuses with the truth that is in
our cognitive organ, and by this action we achieve a new and more excellent
life.

What is consciousness?

In theistic psychology I define consciousness as the
vertical dimension of the mental world of
eternity. We are born into this world but we are not conscious of it until
after resuscitation when we lose all connectivity to the physical body and
world. Swedenborg interviewed a large sample of people who were undergoing the
process of resuscitation, at the end of which they open their eyes and find
themselves conscious in their spiritual mind, having but vague memories of their
natural mind which gradually shuts down and is no longer present to our
conscious awareness or memory. What remains are all the spiritual
correspondences that are contained within every natural neologisms. So our
consciousness is not the same in the spiritual mind, but it is related to our
natural mind as the contents of a box are related to the box, because the
meaning of the natural neologism contains within it the meaning of the
corresponding spiritual neologism, and this in turn contains the meaning of the
celestial neologism that corresponds to it.

Meaning within meaning within meaning. These three
anatomical layers of the human mind form its consciousness. There is no other
human consciousness than what is formed at these three interconnected layers of
the mental world of eternity.

The mental world of eternity is a human sphere shaped into
the form of every anatomical organ familiar to us in the physical body. The
mental world has the human anatomical form because it is the original form from
which the form of the physical body was created. The mental world is the cause
that is within the effect, which is the physical body. Where is the mental world
of eternity? It is within the physical world of time-place. The word “within” as
used here was coined by God during His Physical Incarnation Life on earth, whose
biography and sayings are preserved as the New Testament Sacred Scripture. As
discussed above

nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the
kingdom of God is within you.(Luke 17:21)

This Divine Natural Neologism, “within you,” referring to
the “kingdom of God” or heaven, contains within it a Divine Spiritual Neologism,
and within that, a Divine Celestial Neologism. We gain a higher spiritual
consciousness when we extract the Spiritual Neologism that is contained within
the Natural “within.” At the spiritual anatomical level of consciousness (layer
5), the meaning of “within” in the Divine Spiritual Neologism, derives the
meaning of the light of truth in our understanding or cognitive organ. At the
celestial anatomical level of consciousness (layer 4), the meaning of “within”
in the Divine Celestial Neologism, derives the meaning of the heat of love in
our affective organ (or “the will”). The spiritual meaning of “within” is the
cause of something. The celestial meaning of “within” is the source of that
cause.

For example, the expression of eating food appears
frequently in Sacred Scripture. Through knowing correspondences from the
Swedenborg Reports we can derive the Divine Spiritual Neologism that is within
the Divine Natural Neologism of eating food. This spiritual meaning is to
appropriate spiritual truths through loving them and willing them. As there are
different varieties of spiritual truths in the mental world of eternity,
therefore there are varieties of foods on earth. The two are connected like
cause and effect. Now to get to the source of this cause we need to derive the
celestial correspondence that we have in layer 4 of our mental anatomy. This
celestial meaning that corresponds to “eating food” is to receive spiritual
goods in our affective organ by loving the good that inflows from God as
spiritual heat. Eating is therefore a representative of incorporating spiritual
light and loving its good.

The reason that eating is so frequently mentioned in Sacred
Scripture is that our eternal existence and happiness in the heavenly
layers of
the human mind depends entirely on our appropriation of spiritual good through
loving them and willing them in our daily choices of living here on earth.
And this most critical appropriation
cannot take place except through spiritual neologisms that introduce our
thinking and speaking to what is good vs. what is good corrupted.

Constructing
a neologism is a “performative speech act” (Austin and Searle come to mind).
There are three types of constructed neologisms: affective, cognitive, and
sensorimotor. These constitute the threefold self or mental anatomy of every
human being. Affective organs produce affective neologisms. Cognitive organs
produce cognitive neologisms. Sensorimotor organs produce sensorimotor
neologisms. God produces Divine Neologisms. In terms of the sequence of
production of neologisms in the universe we have the following sequence: (see
the
Chart of Mental Anatomy)

A layer is called a “discrete degree” in the Swedenborg
Reports. This means that there are no direct connections between layers, but
only a functional relation of correspondence. The
layers are arranged
“sequential order”, and as it proceeds from top to bottom, or from internal to
external, what succeeds contains within itself what precedes. Layer 1 events
cause by correspondence all layer 4 events, and the cause is within the effect
it produces. “Within” means a discrete degree more interior, hence, prior, or
higher in command. Layer 5 is caused by layer 4, within which is Layer 1). By
the time the exteriorizing sequence reaches the outmost layer, the sequential
order is complete. Now the entire series from first to last is contained in
layer 9 in “simultaneous order.” The accompanying diagram is a visual
representation of this type of embedded cause-effect structure.

The diagram makes it clear that when we look at a neologism
written by someone we are looking at layer 9, which is the outmost containant of
all the neologisms that are contained within its discrete degrees. Every
neologism coined by a human being is therefore a Divine Neologism (Layer 1) that
has exteriorized from the inmost of existence (Layer 1) to the outmost natural
mind and world. This shows how God is the source of all neologisms produced by
human beings. It also shows that the entire human race participates in the
production of one individual’s neologism.

Autobiographical
neologisms are expressions and sayings by others that provide you with a
source of insight into some mental area.
Affective autobiographical neologisms bring us to a deeper or higher love in
relation to an area of activity or use that we perform.
Cognitive autobiographical neologisms
brings us a higher or deeper understanding to go along with that higher love.
Thus takes place the mental marriage of love and understanding, which produces
the constant stream of sensorimotor
autobiographical neologisms as an objective and visible record of our mental
life in its growth and development. The mutual sharing and exchange of all types
of neologisms is the mental economy by which God unites all individual human
beings into one global individual called
the Grand Human in the mental world of eternity. In the
Swedenborg
Reports God reveals this about Himself, namely that He is the Life of the
Grand Human, which in its totality makes up the eternal heavenly abodes of human
beings who desire to be in
mutual conjugial love with a soul mate, and led in totality by the
Omniproprium of God
in His Presence as the Divine Human.

The Swedenborg Reports explain that “to love” is to want to
make another happy from oneself.

The love that we have for our pets or our children fits
very well with this Divine Neologism. God is explaining to each of us what we
must do to love. This is true love. Love that is
God’s love in human
beings. God gives this love because His Nature or Character is Love Itself.
God loves the human race or the human individual, which means that God wants to
make the individual and the race happy from Himself. This means that He wants us
to have whatever good He can give us, or that we are willing to receive in our
affective organ as spiritual
heat from the Spiritual Sun that is around God like a living Aura of Life,
of Love and Truth.

We want to make our children and pets happy when we love
them. And we want to do this from ourselves. That means that we want to give
them whatever good we have and we want them to take it so they can have it. This
is the thought that we find rewarding “so they can have it.” We want them to
have our good so they can own it, so it is theirs. If we have some food they
need or like, we give it to them. If we have money to buy them things, we spend
it. If we have a certain skill that we love that makes us happy and better, we
want them to have it. We want to teach it to them so they can have it as their
own. If we have values that we cherish we want to pass those on to them so they
can have those values, and they can have the satisfactions that come with owning
those values. So it is with God and us human beings.

The grand plan and ultimate destination God has created for
human beings is the Grand Human in mental world of eternity. Every human awakens
in consciousness at resuscitation, a few hours after the dying process and
separation from being intertwined with the physical body. Then our consciousness
in eternity begins. We have arrived to our life of immortality in our eternal
spiritual body, with which we were born along with the temporary physical body.
In this spiritual body we can participate and receive the Life of the Grand
Human, and join one of the numberless spiritual societies in the various regions
of the Grand Human. Swedenborg described the differing mentality of the people
in many of these regions, like the region of the heart, or the province of the
lungs, etc.

Now you can have a better perspective on the sentence you
read just above: “The mutual sharing and exchange of all types of neologisms is
the mental economy by which God unites all individual human beings into one
global individual called the Grand Human
in the mental world of eternity.”

In other words, your particular unique thinking, speaking,
and writing are the personal and autobiographical venues by which God is
integrating you into the synergy of the Grand Human. Your uniqueness is
essential to the perfection and evolution of the Grand Human. Isn’t this
amazing? I coined a neologism for it when I first wrote about it in 2004: the
Perizonius Thesis. This means that your daily production of neos is like
“daily bread” to the people in the Grand Human.

Neologisms are
semantic way stations or platforms in the mental world of eternity. Each
neologism is a pin point on the spiritual
map of the region in which the neologism is enrooted. Every region of the
Grand Human, and its perversion or opposite as the
Grand Monster,
originates a particular mental variety of neologisms. Affective neologisms
originate in the regions of the Grand Human that involve the circulatory organs
and operations of the blood and lymph system. Cognitive neologisms originate in
the respiratory system of the Grand Human, including the larynx, mouth, and
lips. Sensorimotor neologisms are sourced from the skin, membranes, cartilages,
bones, sensory organs, nervous system, and brain.

Divine Celestial, Spiritual, and Natural Neologisms are the
varieties of truths that construct our intelligence and rationality at each
anatomical layer. The physiology,
anatomy, and biochemistry of the body are nothing but correspondences and
symbolic representatives of the mental
internet that constitutes the Grand Human. This is the true reality, while
the physical internet of communities
and societies on earth are temporary
appearances instantiated by correspondences of the physical world with the
realities of the eternal mental world.

If all this sounds to you somewhat abstract rather than
concrete and immediately relevant you can bring it down to concrete objectivity
simply by realizing that you are now in the mental world of eternity. “You”
means your self, your conscious identity as a unique person, the “me” that forms
your actuality in daily life, namely, your sensations, your thoughts, and your
feelings. This is you. Now where are these mental events? They cannot be in your
brain or physical body because sensations, thoughts, and feelings are not
material operations, but mental operations, and these have no space or energy or
time as do other physical objects.

It is clear therefore that the mental world is outside
space and time, and this is called the world of eternity. When we
die and resuscitate a few
hours later, we awaken in the mental world of eternity, which is the same
world you are in right this moment, and were in since your birth. You are not
conscious of this because we are born with a natural mind or consciousness, and
a spiritual mind or consciousness. Our natural consciousness is from sensory
input through the physical body, and therefore our natural thoughts and natural
feelings reflect the physical world only. But our spiritual consciousness after
resuscitation is from sensory input through the spiritual body, and therefore
spiritual thoughts and spiritual feelings
reflect the mental world of eternity alone, and nothing at all about the
physical world of time.

This is real and concrete, like anatomy and physiology.
Sensations, thoughts, and feelings are
organic-physiological spiritual operations of the mental organs called
sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective. It’s very useful to know this because it
allows us to plot the strategy of our
spiritual navigation in the afterlife of eternity. If we monitor our daily
production neologisms we can keep track of how much of our loves are rooted in
the societies of the Grand Human, and which of our loves are rooted in the
societies of the Grand Monster. This spiritual economy is called “salvation” in
the Swedenborg Reports. In other words, after resuscitation into our spiritual
consciousness, we are compelled by the laws of spiritual physiology to undergo a
search for our hidden loves, especially our ruling love that controls all the
loves.

The ruling love we have when we are resuscitated always
wins, as we can see from the many observations Swedenborg made over the course
of 27 years of daily observations and records. The ruling love is what we care
the most for, more than any other love. If this love is enrooted in the Grand
Monster, we are irresistibly drawn by our
own love to the region of the Grand Monster where that love exists with the
people who inhabit that region of the
mental world. If our ruling love is enrooted in the Grand Human, we are
irresistibly drawn to that society of people, and when we arrive there, or into
that mental state, we become
synergistically linked in consciousness with them. We breathe and live that
specific variety and species of love.

Clearly then, nothing can be more important to us in this
life than to manage the production of our daily neologisms so that
our ruling love, with its retinue of
sub-loves in our affective organ, be enrooted in the Grand Human’s endless
supply of Divine Celestial and Spiritual Neologisms. When we come across such a
hellish driving neologism as “Look at
that idiot. He forgot to turn off his turn signal,” we need to react to it with
a heavenly driving neologism as
“That’s not kind of me to think that about him. I take it back.” When we do this
systematically as a daily spiritual
self-witnessing discipline in all the areas of our activities and exchanges
with others, then we are following the rational and effective strategy God makes
available to us to insure that our ruling
love after resuscitation is enrooted in the Grand Human. What can be more
important than that in the few decades we spend in our natural consciousness,
vs. the endless life of immortality in our eternal spiritual consciousness. You
be the judge if there is anything that could possible more critical to you.

Spelling-neologisms
are new ways of spelling a word or name, which may be accompanied by a change in
pronunciation. A prominent example comes to mind: “nucular” for “nuclear”
(starting in the 1950’s I believe). More recently I witnessed “anacronym” for
“an acronym” or for “acronym.”
Spelling-neos are related to
phonological neologisms, which are new ways of pronouncing a word or name.
No doubt there is a discoverable law that describes the
cross-modal interaction dynamics
between spelling-neos and phono-neos.
We know that the visual and auditory systems can behave both
independently and interdependenty.
Research on correspondences may
reveal what this dynamic is.

All neologisms are
eternal. Every neo is an immortal neo.

This is clear when you consider that neologisms are
semantic units or meaning objects,
and these are mental objects and
operations. The Swedenborg Reports demonstrate that all mental objects are
constructed out of substances that flow out of the Spiritual Sun in the mental
world of eternity, into which we are born with an eternal spiritual body that
contains our immortal mental organs – affective (“will”), cognitive
(“understanding”), and sensorimotor (“body”). Our sensations, thoughts, and
feelings are therefore immortal objects preserved forever in our spiritual body.
Neologisms are innovative operations in our three mental organs, namely,
affective neologisms, cognitive neologisms, and sensorimotor neologisms. You can
see from this that neos are immortal mental
objects preserved forever in the mental
world of eternity through our spiritual body.

Living necessitates the
continuous construction of endless
immortal neologisms. This is because
all neologisms are sourced from Divine Neologisms through the Spiritual Sun
and its outflow of good and truth in the form of spiritual heat and light. Every
single thing that flows from God through the Spiritual Sun is an “image and
likeness” of God, and since God is infinite, every single thing that flows from
God must be infinite and unique. The
infinity within every existing thing makes every object that exists
completely unique and innovative. This means that
every object, quality, or operation is a
Divine Neologism. There can never be two identical objects or two
repetitions of the same thing, or two repetitions of a sensation, thought, or
feeling, desire, and satisfaction.
Heavenly life is the life of neologism
itself.

Heavenly life is the
happiness of neologisms.

Human beings are maximally happy only when every moment of
living is more exciting than the previous one. Swedenborg reports that those who
are in mental anatomy layer 4 (or “third and highest heaven”), are maximally
happy. If God were to add to their happiness,
their being would burst and end. To
keep this layer of human consciousness
in a state of maximal happiness God
provides people with His Own Omniproprium
or Divine Human Character which each person in that conscious layer can
experience subjectively as his own or her own. Our as-of self in anatomical
layer 4 is quasi-omniscient so that the desire to know something is filled
instantaneously in our consciousness, without searching, reflecting, or
remembering. Everything that can be known about something we want to know about,
instantaneously and without mental effort, fills our awareness.
With the Omniproprium as our as-of self
in layer 4, we are able to operate from
the highest human loves possible, which gives us
access to the highest goods in existence,
which means the possession of skills and
abilities that we are unable to even begin to imagine, no matter how much we
fantasize about it. Reality will always
be larger than our fantasy of it.

The celestial-rational neologisms that operate in mental
anatomy layer 4 (our “highest” heaven), are located in the region of the heart
and the region of the reproductive organs in the Grand Human. These are the
human neologisms that are closest to the Divine Neologisms. The mental states
that we experience in this layer provide the source of our rationality and
abilities in the lower
layers of consciousness. The celestial-rational meaning
is the highest form of human understanding of Sacred Scripture. Swedenborg saw
the Books of
Sacred Scripture in that layer of the eternal human mind. The people who
keep their daily consciousness in that region spoke to him and said that every
neologism that comes to them is from
Sacred Scripture .

Loud-talking
neologisms are things people say for show, for the attention of the
listeners, more than the person they are talking to.
Loud-talking neologistic speech acts
are insincere and manipulative, and if we do this for selfish reasons, then
these are evil acts that hurt you because they connect you more powerfully to a
ruling love that is sourced in the Grand Monster.
Neologisms of insincerity are
corruptions of neologisms of sincerity.
There is a point by point relationship
between the Grand Human and the Grand Monster, with the latter being the
transformed opposite of the former. All
evil is nothing but the distortion of good, and all falsity is the
distortion of truth. The infernal
concubinage of evil and falsity is the opposite of the heavenly marriage of
good and truth.

Rearrangement neologisms are new ways of combining existing words.
For example, the arrangement of three very common words into this: “feeling,
desire, and satisfaction” creates a
rearrangement neologism. The novel arrangement is normally motivated by the
perception of a new pattern. Rearranged
neos belong to paraphrastic sets of semantically related neos. In this case,
the arrangement “feeling, desire, and satisfaction” is achieved by thinking of
affective selections only. On the other hand the arrangement “affective,
cognitive, sensorimotor” is motivated by mental anatomy, just as the arrangement
“anatomy, physiology, biochemistry” is motivated by the anatomy of the physical
body.

Endearment neologisms are affectively motivated and sourced in the
celestial
layers of our mind (4). The love we have for our pet, child, partner,
car, etc., creates the endearment neo.
I produce endearment neos when I hold my wife, or when I groom my black cat
Mana. Homonymous neologisms are
words, phrases, arrangements that
appear the same but involve different
innovations. For instance, if I say “So sweet” to my wife, and then also to
my cat, the two appear to be the same (“So sweet”) but they are different, one
having my wife as a context, the other
having my cat as the context. The
context alters the meaning of the
neologism. If I call my wife “Sweetie” and a minute later I call her
“Sweetie,” these are homonymous endearment neologisms and they denote different affective
operations. This is because time and sequence change the interactional context
therefore the meaning.

There are two kinds of loves and each kind has distinct
properties or ways of operating in our mental world. Inherited loves operate one
way, acquired loves another way. Both kinds of loves share some properties,
while they are different in others. A shared property of all loves, or all
operations in our affective organ, is that they are sourced in either the Grand
Human or the Grand Monster. No love exists that is not heavenly from the Grand
Human or hellish from the Grand Monster. There are no other
created sources for loves.

Another shared property of all loves is that they arrange
themselves in a management hierarchy, with a few “cardinal” loves, or primary
loves, and very many sub-loves. These
sub-loves are like assistants to the
chief loves. At the very top of the
love hierarchy, managing, directing,
and controlling the entire affective hierarchy, sits the “ruling love.”

The Swedenborg Reports identify many
loves that are described in Sacred
Scripture. For the “fallen” spiritual
race known as the split-brain race,
the principal inherited loves cumulatively passed on to every succeeding
generation, are the love of self for the sake of self, the love of dominating
others for the sake of self, the love of materialism and earthly objects for the
sake of self. These inherited loves operate as impulses and triggers in the
affective hierarchy. These spiritual
trigger loves function by connecting our mind to specific societies in the
Grand Monster. Every individual joins one of these societies when
after resuscitation they decide to throw
off or anesthetize the entire
collection of heavenly loves in the affective organ. This
decision moment of eternal fate is
called “the second death.” This is why we are called the “fallen race” in the
sense that if we don’t cut our inherited
ties to the Grand Monster, we go down in life on the
path of least affective resistance,
almost imperceptibly, like a boat being
drawn away by an unknown undercurrent, and
headed towards disaster on the rocks.

We also inherit
heavenly trigger loves that connect our affective organ to the societies of
the Grand Human. These heavenly trigger loves include the love of innocence in
obedience and surrender to the parental order that is a representation of God’s
order. We can see this principal heavenly
love in infants and toddlers, and in adults who love to be good and orderly
because it is God’s order. At the same time we can see in babies and toddlers
the hatred of this love of obedience, and this
negative rebellious selfish love
comes from their connection to the Grand Monster societies. Such is the
zone of the mental world that we live
in every day and every minute while we
are earthbound and our natural mind
is tied by correspondence to the physical body. It is a
spiritual war zone. We alternate
between sides, so that one moment we are with the
hellish societies in our vertical
community, and another moment we are with the heavenly societies. The
heavenly and hellish societies battle
each other inside our thoughts and feelings.

The
Divine
Psychologist with every person’s mind
manages the details of this mental
warfare. Remember that the warfare refers to ourselves.
We are at war against our self and within
our self. The societies on either side cannot battle each other.
Heaven cannot battle hell apart from our
loves. The battle of evil vs. good, and its sub-battle of falsity vs. truth,
is a battle that we keep going. We can end it at any moment because the Divine
Psychologist is there managing the details and the goal or outcome God wants and
provides for each person. We can cooperate or resist.
God honors both by supplying the events
for either.

The
Divine Psychologist provides a
methodology or spiritual discipline
to allow us to win this battle for
eternity.

It is the method of
neologisms.

We receive heavenlyneologisms from Sacred Scripture and
commandment neologisms from our
conscience. These are the mental
vehicles of delivery for spiritual truths that give us
awareness and judgment of the quality of
our loves, whether hellish or heavenly.

In order to understand this rationally let’s bring it down
to anatomy and see how this actually works. The details are revealed in the
correspondential sense of the Old Testament Sacred Scripture, as demonstrated
and proven fully in the Swedenborg Reports. God’s
Divine Speech issuing from the Spiritual
Sun in the mental world of eternity reaches mental anatomy layer 4 (“Third
Heaven”) in the form of the written
Sacred Scripture that exists in that layer of human consciousness.
Swedenborg saw the actual book in a temple that housed it. It is surrounded by a
spiritual light that is thousands of
times more brilliant and intense than our sun at noon on a clear summer day.
Yet this light doesn’t blind the onlooker or reader, but is experienced as
interiorenlightenment with wisdom and
understanding. The letters, words, and expressions are celestial-rational
correspondences of what God actually spoke. These
celestial-rational neologisms
constitute the first entry point of God’s
Divine Truth and Rationality into the conscious minds of human beings.

What determines how much of this light we can take into our
conscious understanding and awareness?

The answer is love.
Such as our love is, such is our understanding. To be conscious of the
meanings of celestial-rational neologisms (layer 4) we must
admit into ourselves, our affective organ,
celestial loves such as are sourced in that mental layer. The
chief love in that layer of human
consciousness is conjugial love. In the Swedenborg Reports God reveals the
scientific fact that all loves are arranged in a top-down hierarchy, and that at
the very top of this is conjugial love – the mutual and reciprocal love of unity
between a husband and wife existing as a
conjoint self. This
ruling love of the heaven and the
universe is the exteriorization of
spiritual heat (or love) and spiritual light (or truth). These two
Divine and infinite eternal living
substances make a one in God. Good (or love) and truth (or rationality)
exteriorize into creation through the Spiritual Sun, and the human consciousness
of these two spiritual substances starts with the mental world of eternity,
layer 4.

Good and truth are united in God as one, and this is called
the Divine Marriage of Good and Truth. As spiritual heat and light flow into
layer 4 they are received as two – spiritual heat (or love) is received in the
affective organ (layer 4A) while spiritual light (or truth) is received in the
cognitive organ (layer 4C). The result is that love and truth from God now exist
in human beings and their consciousness – love in the affective organ (or
“will”) and truth in the cognitive organ (or “understanding”). If both good and
truth have been received and are in the person, they operate in the person
bringing about a coordinated interaction between our loves (layer 4A) and our
meanings (layer 4C). We experience the motivation (4A) to think about (4C) how
we might be maximally useful to others, starting with our conjugial partner, and
extending the circle to our neighbors in the society we live in layer 4. From
there the “good will” and “good works” or “uses of charity” (4S) exteriorize to
layer 5 (“Second Heaven”), and from there downward and outward, until it the
chain of neologisms enters our conscious natural mind we use in daily life here
(layers 7, 8, 9).

When the affective
and cognitive organs are conjoined in a person the new mental state is
called “the spiritual marriage of good and truth.” This is the way of salvation
because it is the method by which we are regenerated and become spiritual. This
means that the spiritual marriage of good and truth in our natural mind (layers
7, 8, 9) must take place prior to our
resuscitation. We must engage in
spiritual combat prior to our death here. Without this, we cannot be
regenerated in character so that the “infernal marriage of evil and falsity”
with which we are born and raised, will remain forever as our
mental state of disorder, insanity, and
hell. The Swedenborg Reports explain why it is said in the New Testament
Sacred Scripture that there are
no marriages in heaven. The
correspondential sense of “marriage” is “the conjunction of good and truth in
our mind.” This conjunction must take place before death, and if it doesn’t, it
cannot be obtained after resuscitation, as it is explained in the parable of the
five virgins who brought lamps without oil, and were denied entrance into heaven
(Matt. 25:1-12).

The reason we cannot obtain “oil” (=good of love) after
“waking up” (=resuscitation) is that the good of love can be ours (“buy for
ourselves”) only if we acquired it by first voluntarily giving up evil
loves that are contrary to good. This cannot be done after our death. How do you
give up enjoyments you love? The method is given in Sacred Scripture. The
purpose of the existence of Sacred Scripture is to teach people how they can
give up their inherited and acquired evil
enjoyments. This process is called regeneration of character. And it always
involves spiritual combat.

What is spiritual combat?

It is the method of Divine Psychotherapy or Healing. The
Divine Psychologist is in every person’s mind through the good and truth we are
willing to receive from the inflow coming from the Spiritual Sun. As the good
enters the affective organ we experience some
heavenly desire, intention, or motive.
Now we experience a mental conflict. This
good strives to bring about the spiritual marriage in the person. The good
seeks out anything in the cognitive organ that is compatible with it.
Only truth is compatible with good.
All truth enters our understanding and awareness through teachings that
originate in Sacred Scripture – that there is a God, that God gives Sacred
Scripture as a Divine guide, that there is
Heaven and
Hell, that we are to shun
evils as sins against God, and that if we do not, our fate in eternity is in
hell. These spiritual truths are compatible with the
heavenly intentions and motives that
inflow as good.

Now begins the
spiritual combat. The infernal marriage of
evil enjoyments in the affective organ, and falsified truths in the cognitive
organ, puts up resistance to the
spiritual marriage of good intentions and true understandings.
We experience this combat as a
temptation. The
Divine Psychologist arranges surrounding events so that our
infernal desire for an evil enjoyment is intensified. We feel the temptation to
reject the truth, to believe the falsity, to justify the evil enjoyment. At the
same time we feel the intention of
conscience as a powerful motive to remain true to the good.

“I feel like doing X, I feel like not stopping doing Y,
because it’s what I want, what I enjoy, what is me -- even though I know from
truth, conscience, morality, and Sacred
Scripture that I must not do X or continue to do Y. I must stop, but it
feels like I can’t. I feel terrible, conflictual, pulled in opposite directions.
Please God, help me.”

That’s it. The last speech act brings victory. Until then,
defeat was certain. The hells were already waiting to welcome us. But the last
speech act changed the outcome. We are a “firebrand snatched from the fire.” We
just got saved by the grace of God. The Divine Psychologist gave us victory in
temptation. The instant we acknowledge and appeal to God in our struggle to
“shun evils as sins against Him,” and against heaven, that instant the
temptations eases, slips away, hides in a mental cave, returns to the mental
dungeon of evil loves that keeps all enslaved who hold on to them out of
enjoyment.

Once the temptation is overcome, and victory is
experienced, the
Divine
Psychologist gives a new peace, a new heavenly strength, a new ability to
love what is good and true in our mind – until the next temptation. Regeneration
is the process of undergoing temptations in spiritual combat. It is a lifelong
process, and we must cooperate with the Divine Psychologist all along the way.
In order to understand the psychology of cooperation with the Divine
Psychologist, we need a basic grounding knowledge of mental anatomy in relation
to spiritual geography. The physiology and biochemistry of regeneration proceed
in a lawful and orderly sequence of mental operations. These steps are described
in the Old Testament Sacred Scripture in the correspondential sense of Jacob’s
Ladder (Gen. 28:12-13).

“…He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its
top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending
on it. There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God
of…”

“Discourse thinking” (197x) refers to thinking in discourse
or sentences. I discovered that I spontaneously do this when I’m trying to
become aware and remember something that I’m thinking. I was delighted with this
discovery, which I consider one of the most significant of all my neos prior to
1981. Making yourself think in words is possible most of the time. This strategy
allows the following mental procedure to be performed:

This sequence of operations shows that our thoughts are
produced by a spiritual influx from the mental layer that is immediately above
the consciously active layer. The influx is not direct since mental layers are
in discrete degrees and influence each other solely by the laws of
correspondences. We normally figure things out on our daily round of activities
in consciousness layer 9 and 8. When our thinking is bound to the appearances of
sensory input (layer 9C), the influx comes from layer 8C, which is more abstract
and independent of the literal appearances given by our senses. When we are
conscious in layer 8C (“scientific materialism”) the influx comes from our layer
7eC (“natural-rational”), which is the highest form of external natural
thinking, that is, rational thinking or reasoning that is based on the
abstractions of appearances. When we are thinking consciously in layer 7eC, the
influx comes from our layer 7iC (“interior-natural”), which is the first layer
that is not bound to the abstractions of sensory appearances. This layer is
based on the spiritual truths that we extract from Sacred Scripture and
understand rationally.

Sudden memory is the first phase of our consciousness that
is tied to the influx. I discovered the existence of sudden memory in 197x. I
was engaged in the practice of self-witnessing, which involves monitoring the
contents of sudden memory. I found out that there is a period prior to short
term memory when I examined the contents of my short term memory and realized
that it is sparse in comparison to the fast pace density of sudden memory.
Thoughts tumble into our consciousness at a higher rate than we can record them
in short term memory. By the time we access short term memory as much as 1,000
milliseconds have gone by, during which a sequence of ideas have actually
occurred. With a little focus and practice you can actually perceive the
difference.

The experience of trying to “snatch something” from sudden
memory is similar to the procedure of trying to recall the contents of a dream,
one or two seconds upon waking from one. There is the familiar feeling of the
“tip of the tongue phenomenon” (zzz comes to mind) where you can almost say what
it is you’re trying to remember, but something is blocking it at the last
millisecond. My current interpretation is that the contents of sudden memory and
of most dreams are spiritual, not natural. In other words, they are pre-verbal
thoughts. Pre-verbal thinking is the external natural and cultural form (layers
7e, 8, 9) of the universal human thought-language that every person
spontaneously starts using immediately upon resuscitation, when the spiritual
mind (layers 6, 5, 4) becomes conscious to us.

The language we use in the spiritual mind is innate and
does not have to be learned. Swedenborg confirmed this by speaking to many
people immediately after their resuscitation. I believe that sudden memory is
the first conscious localized cultural translation of the innate spiritual
thought-language within an individual. We can perceive it and monitor it, but we
cannot recall it. It’s like being awake and conscious in all your dreams, but
when you wake up, you have no memory of what you were conscious of. By using the
discourse thinking technique it is possible to snatch more content from it, and
place it in short term memory before it is gone, out of our reach. Discourse
thinking seems to actually slow down the stream of sudden memory. If you make
yourself to think in words, second by second as you’re doing something, you are
able to be aware of more things that you are actually thinking.

Children spontaneously think out loud using language. It’s
not until around the age of 6 or 7 when they learn to inhibit the tendency to
think out loud. But even as adults we sometimes think out loud without realizing
it, and if others can hear us, it can be embarrassing to some people. I recall
thinking out loud as I walked on streets, realizing too late when another
pedestrian came into earshot, and feeling foolish for doing it. As people get
older the tendency to think out loud reasserts itself and has to be actively
repressed for social reasons. I believe that all these thinking out loud
situations have a common cause, which is the people’s motivation to become more
aware of what they are thinking.

The progressive filtering down of the Divine Neo (layer 1,
Spiritual Sun) across the mental layers of eternity can be seen
materialistically (layer 8C) or with a rational (layer 7eC) or an
interior-natural (layer 7iC) perspective. First we see it in a materialistic
perspective (layer 8C). We might think of a physical model we are familiar with
in our thinking and reasoning, as for example, a glass elevator on the side of a
building going down from the Divine Penthouse, passing across all the lower
floors, until it reaches the ground floor. Each floor represents a mental layer.
The elevator could be a symbol of our consciousness, and the floor level could
represent the level of our consciousness. We, the “I” or the conscious “me,”
stands in the elevator and gets a different vision or perspective from each
floor.

This is a materialistic perspective on consciousness. Layer
8C thinking and reasoning is called materialistic because it is based on sensory
input from the physical world, as recorded in layer 9S. This layer is the
closest the two worlds get to each other, namely, the mental world of eternity
(layer 9S and above) and the physical world of material space and time (layers
11 and 12). The world of eternity is the mental world and it is an organic
living world. The world of time, space, matter, and energy is a dead world. The
energy and matter in physical space have one origin and source, namely, a
physical mass of intense solar energy. This mass of solar matter and gravitation
expands everywhere to generate the planets. The solar mass is dead, and the
planet is dead, with everything whatsoever that is constructed on the planet
from the planet. Something dead is the origin of only what is dead.

In contrast to this dead world, the mental world of
eternity is a living world because its origin and source is from the Spiritual
Sun. This is a living Divine Solar Mass of spiritual energy and substance. What
is this? What is spiritual energy and substance? This is not a materialistic
analogy at layer 8C or 7eC thinking and reasoning. This is a literal and
empirical description, not a figurative speech. When I started bringing the
Swedenborg Reports into psychology after 1981, I started using the expression
“substantive dualism” to reflect this idea that the spiritual world outside time
and space is a substantive world. The concept of “spiritual substance”
corresponds to the concept of “physical matter.” The Spiritual Sun is living not
dead. All its substances are living. Nothing but what is living can exist in the
world created by the Spiritual Sun around itself and from itself. Whatever is
created from the living substances of the Spiritual Sun is inherently living and
remains living to eternity. Death is not possible in the mental world of
eternity since everything, with no exception, is constructed out of the
Spiritual Sun.

The Divine Human Neo, as the Spiritual Sun Itself (layer
1), exteriorizes and descends from above across the layers of the human mind (2
to 9). This is not a physical descent, as in the materialistic analogy of the
elevator standing for consciousness, discussed above. We need to think of this
descent in terms of correspondences alone. The mental layers are organic and
living. This means that they are reactive and adaptive. Our affective organ
closest to the Spiritual Sun (layer 4A) is the first to be flooded with the
spiritual heat of the Spiritual Sun. The affective layer of the mind (A) is a
living organ that is built from the infinite variety of spiritual heat, which
insures that every affective organ is unique. The substance of spiritual heat is
also called “love” and its diverse “affections” or supporting cast of sub-loves.
Each unique affective organ being created at birth is located in the spiritual
body which also houses the cognitive and sensorimotor organs. These three organ
systems operate at different levels, each level of operation being called a
mental layer.

Layer 4A of our mind is therefore made out of Divine Love,
which is also called spiritual heat from the Spiritual Sun. Layer 4C of our mind
is made of Divine Truth, which is called spiritual light from the Spiritual Sun.
Layer 4S of our mind is made out of the spiritual marriage between layer 4A and
4C. This layer produces all the mental neo babies that make up the Third Heaven
of eternity.

Note that the Divine Human Neo does not actually descend
from layer 1 (Spiritual Sun) to layer 4. Instead, spiritual heat floods the
affective organ (4A), which is made of spiritual heat, so that the unique living
affective organ of a person reacts to it, each in its own unique way. The
relationship between the Divine Human Neo in God (Divine Love and Truth, layer
1) and the human neo in us (layer 4A, 4C) is a discrete difference. There is no
possibility of a continuity between the Divine substances out of which our
mental organs are constructed, and our own self or consciousness as a human
being. God’s Consciousness is infinite and ours is finite. It Is not possible
for the infinite to turn into the finite, or the finite to contain the infinite
at its level of existence.

But the infinite can be within the finite in a discrete way
that is related by correspondence. The Divine substances of heat and light out
of which our mental organs are constructed are and remain God’s substances,
God’s living or God’s life. There is an absolute duality between what we are
made of and what we have that is our own. The unique reaction of our affective
organ (A) to receiving the sphere of spiritual heat, is the unique consciousness
we have of our feelings. No other human being has the same affective organ as
you have, and therefore the feelings you are experiencing in your consciousness
are your own unique feelings. They are not God’s feelings, and they are not
someone else’s feelings. They are your own. These unique personal feelings, or
loves and sub-loves, coalesce into a personality we call “me” or “self.”

So the self is our own, but the organic mental organs that
make up the self, are not our own. They are part of the outgoing Spiritual Sun
and all things in the mental world are made of it and remain of it. Your watch
or pen is made of a piece of the dead sun. Your affective and cognitive organs
are made of a piece of the Spiritual Sun. What we call “pieces” of the sun are
in substance, the sun itself, but now seemingly in a different location from its
origin.

Once the Divine Human Neo is adapted to mental layer 4,
producing there a conjugial life in the celestial heaven, it descends by
correspondence to layer 5, producing there the spiritual heaven. Swedenborg
reports observing that the differences are not continuous but discrete. For
instance, the lowest possible level of operation at layer 4 is out of reach of
the highest possible level of operation for layer 5. Swedenborg compared the
meaning of the layer 4 Sacred Scripture with the meaning of the layer 5 Sacred
Scripture. There was no comparison possible. The only relationship was that of
correspondences. Every idea of thinking and reasoning in our layer 4C, is the
cause of the corresponding lower every idea of thinking and reasoning in our
layer 5C. Similarly, every love and intention in our layer 4A, is the cause of
the corresponding lower love or intention in our layer 5A. When our
consciousness is in layer 4C, we operate at a discretely higher level in our
motive and intelligence, than in our layer 5C. We are a higher form of human
being and human consciousness in layer 4 than in layer 5. Similarly with layer
6, which is the correspondential action of layer 5.

When the Divine Human Neo descends past layer 6, it enters
in a new relationship of correspondence. Layers 4, 5, 6 are called the spiritual
mind, but layers 7, 8, 9 are called the natural mind. They are both organic,
both constructed from the substances of the Spiritual Sun, but they operate
entirely differently. When we are born we have a temporary natural body and a
permanent spiritual body. These two unique bodies are in exact correspondence to
each other, part for part. Our spiritual body with its mental organs changes and
progresses spiritually, while the physical body and its organs, grow naturally.
The connection ends through the process of death and resuscitation.

The spiritual body and its organs, hence what we call “our
mind,” has a lower and more external portion called the natural mind (layers 9,
8, 7), and a higher and interior portion called the spiritual mind (layers 6, 5,
4). The natural mind grows in correspondence to the sensory events activating
the physical body. Our mental layer 9 is the closest in correspondence to the
physical world of time, place, matter, limits, etc. Our thinking in layer 9C is
based on the appearances of the senses, and we say “The Sun rises.” But in layer
8C, our thinking is abstracted, knowing that the sun does not rise, even as we
speak from appearances by mere convention. In layer 7eC we can reason
rationally, above mere materialistic abstractions that in themselves remain
materialistic ideas and ways of thinking. So layers 9, 8, 7 of the natural mind
are called natural because they are built up in content, culture, and meaning by
the things and events in the physical world.

But layer 7eC is still a type of rational thinking that is
limited by the appearances and abstractions of the physical world of time and
space. There is a spiritual gulf between the spiritual mind and the natural mind
that cannot be crossed, even by correspondences. Hence it is that the Divine
Incarnation was necessary to create a new layer called the interior-natural mind
(layer 7i) which could also become our own rational, like layer 7eC is our own.
But with this new higher rational operation (layer 7iC), we are able to think
and reason without using any of the abstractions and appearances of the lower
layers (7eC, 8c, 9C). With our interior-natural thinking (7iC) we are able to be
conscious of and comprehend higher meanings and truths that are contained
several discrete degrees within and above the literal meaning. Layer 7eC is
external thinking and reasoning, based on the natural-rational abstractions of
the literal sense of Sacred Scripture. Layer 7iC is interior thinking and
reasoning, based on the spiritual-rational correspondences of Sacred Scripture.

Our conscience in layer 7eA (external natural conscience),
operates at a level of power far below in magnitude than the level of our
conscience in layer 7iA (interior-natural conscience). The external natural
conscience has failed the human race. All people are born with a conscience of
good and justice, but this fails to prevent them from abusive, cruel, and unjust
actions. We know that we are not supposed to be overweight, and even feel guilty
about it, from the weak conscience we have. But this conscience is not strong
enough to keep us from being overweight. Similarly, people who injure others,
steal from them, lie and discriminate against them, also have a weak conscience
incapable of preventing them from doing horrible and stupid things from which
they and others suffer. This is the “Fallen Conscience” of the human race.

But the Divine Incarnation Event created a new conscience
in layer 7iA. This new “will” receives the spiritual heat from the Spiritual
Sun, and retains it without dissipating it by hating it. It is able to receive
love and motivation (7iA) that has spiritual correspondential power over the
love and motivation in the lower rational conscience (layer 7eA). An example is
the requirement of the popular and successful Alcoholics and Drugs Anonymous
health movements, which specify that the person must acknowledge a “higher
power” from which one receives the ability to overcome the addiction. This
higher power is God acting by correspondence in the person’s mind, activating
the operation of layer 7iC. The person becomes conscious of a higher meaning in
life. Life is managed by a higher power, and we are healed by this power when we
acknowledge and accept the spiritual-rational idea that God is active in our
mind and in our lives, managing all the details. This is spiritual sanity. The
idea we had before that acknowledgment, and its rational understanding, was that
we manage our own lives ourselves. And this is spiritual insanity.

Theistic psychology is the knowledge and reasoning we have
in the interior-natural mind (layer 7iC). This knowledge and reasoning is
gathered by applying the science of correspondences to Sacred Scripture, using
the methods prescribed in the Swedenborg Reports.

Meaning and consciousness are
subjective and collective experiences
of truth and rationality issuing from the Spiritual Sun in the form of spiritual
light within which is spiritual heat. The unity between these two living and
eternal Divine substances enters creation and existence outside of God. God is
present in the created universe as this Divine substance from Himself. The first
creation outside of God is mental ether or the mental world of eternity. This is
where human minds are born, become unique individual selves, and live forever.
No death exists in the mental world of
eternity.

What is mental ether?

It is the consciousness of truth, the meaning of truth, the
understanding of truth and reasoning with truth. This acknowledgment of truth
and engaging process with truth, creates meaning and consciousness. The mental
world of eternity is suddenly filled with light, the light of truth understood.
All things in the physical world are created from this process of acknowledging
truth and engaging truth by thinking from it and which gives us human
rationality. From Divine Truth and Rationality, to human truth and rationality,
to physical logic and mechanics – this is the descent of truth as it
exteriorizes into the created universe, forms it, directs and manages it. This
is God’s Divine Order by which all created
layers and objects, and events are
managed, from the sub-atomic to the galactic, and from the individual particular
to the collective universal, or as it is said in Sacred Scripture: “From firsts
to lasts”:

TCR 63. (5) God is omnipresent from the firsts to the lasts of His order.
God is omnipresent from the firsts to the lasts of His order by means of the
heat and light of the spiritual sun, in the midst of which He is. It was by
means of that sun that order was produced; and from it He sends forth a heat
and a light which pervade the universe from firsts to lasts, and produce the
life that is in man and in every animal, and also the vegetative soul that
is in every germ upon the earth; and these two flow into each thing and all
things, and cause every subject to live and grow according to the order
implanted in it by creation. And as God, though not extended, fills every
extense in the universe, He is omnipresent. It has been shown elsewhere that
God is in all space without space, and in all time without time, and
consequently that the universe in its essence and order is the plenitude of
God; and this being so, by His omnipresence He perceives all things, by His
omniscience He provides all things, and by His omnipotence He effects all
things. From this it is clear that omnipresence, omniscience, and
omnipotence make one, or that one implies the others; and thus that they
cannot be separated. (TCR 63) (Swedenborg Reports)

The
Divine
Psychologist has established the order of regeneration, manages it directly
in every human being, and reveals in Sacred Scripture the manner of our
cooperation in that process. Our willingness sets a limit to the progressive
steps of regeneration. The further we progress in character reformation (or
regeneration) the deeper the hellish loves that we are called upon to give up in
order to progress still further. There seems to be an endless series of hellish
loves in which we are intertwined. The process would fail in every case were it
not for the Divine Intervention and omnipotent management of every detail from
firsts to lasts, from our birth to our endless eternity. No evils are allowed to
come into existence in the mental world of eternity except those evils that God
manages and uses for good purposes for the benefit of the individual and the
collectivity of humankind. In this sense this is a perfect world and a perfect
creation. All evil events and happenings in both worlds, are used by God for
good, No single event can occur except as part of God’s perfect plan for the
good of all concerned.

God’s management of the universe is through the
descent and ascent of human consciousness
as embodied in neologisms. Layer 1 of the mental world of eternity is the
Spiritual Sun from which flow out Divine
Rational Neologisms in the form of spiritual light within which is spiritual
heat. These form and enter the subsequent layers, of which the first conscious
layer is formed by spiritual truth in the
form of celestial-rational neologisms in Sacred Scripture. From there human
consciousness and meaning of Divine Truth descends and forms the next layer in
the human mind. Here is the entire series of
descending consciousness of Divine Truth
in Sacred Scripture:

Layer 4: celestial-rational neologisms

Layer 5: spiritual-rational neologisms

Layer 6: spiritual-natural neologisms

Layer 7i: interior-natural neologisms

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Layer 7e: external-rational neologisms

Layer 8: external-natural neologisms

Layer 9: corporeal-natural neologisms

Our regeneration proceeds from top to bottom (layer 7, 8,
9) after we developed from bottom up (layers 9, 8, 7) –
see chart.
It starts in young adulthood when we begin to think from ourselves instead of
from our socialization or imbibed
neologisms. Reaching young adulthood required our psychological development
from layer 9 (infancy), then to layer 8 (childhood), then to layer 7e
(adolescence and young adulthood). At this point there is an inversion from
ascending to descending. It starts with one’s reformation, which is the state of
acknowledgement of Sacred Scripture as
the source of all knowledge and understanding of spiritual truth and
regeneration. This is layer 7i called the interior-natural layer. Layer 7e is
the natural-rational mind thinking with self-intelligence based on the knowledge
of the physical world. This natural-rational thinking cannot detect the
actuality of the dual universe, God, or
Heaven and
Hellin our mind. All
spiritual knowledge is from spiritual truth, and this is from Sacred Scripture
alone. God’s delivery mechanism of truth
and reality is through the neologisms
contained in Sacred Scripture at each mental layer.

Regeneration of
layers 7, 8, 9 (natural layers) proceed
under the motivation and influence of layers 6, 5, 4 (spiritual layers). The
spiritual layers do not need regeneration since they are
formed by Divine Neologisms at each layer.
We are not conscious of the operation of these spiritual layers (4, 5, 6) until
after our resuscitation. Swedenborg’s spiritual mission required that these
layers become conscious to him prior to his death, while he was still able to
write and publish the scientific Swedenborg Reports in this world. Among the
earliest generations on this planet everyone had this dual consciousness to some
extent.

TCR 63. (5) God is omnipresent from the firsts to the lasts of His order.
God is omnipresent from the firsts to the lasts of His order by means of the
heat and light of the spiritual sun, in the midst of which He is. It was by
means of that sun that order was produced; and from it He sends forth a heat
and a light which pervade the universe from firsts to lasts, and produce the
life that is in man and in every animal, and also the vegetative soul that
is in every germ upon the earth; and these two flow into each thing and all
things, and cause every subject to live and grow according to the order
implanted in it by creation. And as God, though not extended, fills every
extense in the universe, He is omnipresent. It has been shown elsewhere that
God is in all space without space, and in all time without time, and
consequently that the universe in its essence and order is the plenitude of
God; and this being so, by His omnipresence He perceives all things, by His
omniscience He provides all things, and by His omnipotence He effects all
things. From this it is clear that omnipresence, omniscience, and
omnipotence make one, or that one implies the others; and thus that they
cannot be separated.(TCR 63) (Swedenborg Reports)

Individual biography
recapitulates collective evolution. The phases of our individual
regeneration replicates the phases of the historical evolution of civilizations
in history. The mentality level of the Divine Literal Neologisms that make up
Sacred Scripture matches the mentality level of the people to whom that Sacred
Scripture was given – otherwise they would not receive the new teachings of how
they are to live. The mentality of the people who lived in ancient times four
thousand years ago was rudimentary and barbaric. The idea they had of God was a
corporeal idea in layer 9 (9C). God was understood as a powerful despot or king
who punished people who don’t perform the rituals they were prescribed to
follow. God was seen as loyal to that particular small nation and ethnic group.
God not only punished, but boasts repeatedly of how he is going to take revenge
on those who don’t honor His Glory. In terms of the commandment to love, they
interpreted this as meaning to love themselves as a people, and to exclude from
this love all others in the universe. They were willing to serve a God only if
He made them superior over all others. And they were willing to accept as reward
only that which was materialistic and belonging to this world only. Such were
the people of the Old Testament Sacred Scripture, and such is the level of
discourse in the literal sense of that Testament.

Historically the three Testaments complete each other and
form a perfect and complete whole:

Old Testament Sacred Scripture (second millennium BC)

New Testament Sacred Scripture (first century AD)

Swedenborg Reports Sacred Scripture (18th century)

In the ascending phase of psychological
development, we go through layer 9 (infancy), layer 8 (childhood), layer 7
(adolescence to young adulthood). This ascending developmental series
corresponds to the historical ascending level of consciousness and mentality:

civilization in the days of the Old Testament (the Age of Antiquity)

civilization in the days of the New Testament (the Age of philosophy and
pre-modern rationality), and

civilization in the days of the Swedenborg Reports (18th century,
the Age of Enlightenment and beginning of modern science).

The regeneration of our layer 7e (natural-rational mind) is
by means of the Swedenborg Reports Sacred Scripture, in coordination with
spiritual layer 6 (“good spirits in the First Heaven”). Layers 6 and 7i become
conjoined, and this brings our consciousness to a new level of spirituality.

The regeneration of our layer 8 (external-natural mind) is
by means of the New Testament Sacred Scripture, in coordination with spiritual
layer 5 (“angelic spirits in the Second Heaven”). Layers 5 and 8 become
conjoined, and this brings our consciousness to a still newer and higher level
of spirituality.

The regeneration of our layer 9 (natural-corporeal mind) is
by means of the Old Testament Sacred Scripture, in coordination with spiritual
layer 4 (“angels in the Third Heaven”). Layers 4 and 9 become conjoined, and
this brings our consciousness to the highest and final level of spirituality. At
this point we lose our connection to the physical body through the dying and
resuscitation process, and continue life in our spiritual
layers (6, 5, 4) that
constitute the heavens of the Grand Human.

The Swedenborg Reports Sacred Scripture is written in
natural-rational neologisms that are
understandable in our layer 7 (natural-rational mind). The New Testament Sacred
Scripture is written in natural-sensual
neologisms that are understandable in our layer 8 (natural-sensuous or
materialistic mind). The Old Testament Sacred Scripture is written in
natural-corporeal neologisms that are understandable in our layer 7
(natural-corporeal mind). The psychological characteristics and mentality for
each layer are
described
here.

The cumulative construction of neocharts provides you with
snapshots of the organic growth of your mind and its rational development. It is
the chart of your spiritual journey. A case in point is my neochart
construction. As I kept working on the project, sampling more of my articles,
the number of entries kept increasing from a few hundred to a few thousand. The
document size was slowing down the application’s ability to handle it and every
command became painfully slow, even typing! I had to devise new strategies of
working on the document and still end up with one easy list readers could see
alphabetized, numbered, and linked. I kept a back up copy regularly so now I am
able to see how the neochart was changing in identity over time. Here is an
example of how the ‘neochart developer-record’ (=a record about the developer of
a neochart), produces a poetic picture of the evolution in consciousness in the
spiritual landscape of the chart developer. The first analysis is a collection
of sentence neos in the chart, arranged in successive days over time.

Neologisms are born in the minds of human beings. They are
our mental children, immortal, indestructible, existing forever in the mental
world of eternity. Neos are constructed out of rational ether that forms the
expanse of the mental world of humanity. There is only one mental world and
every person is born into it, and remains in it forever. Your mental world is my
mental world is every one’s mental world. Mental ether is created as an expanse
around the Spiritual Sun which forms its center and its highest point. This
creation is prior to time which does not exist in this spiritual expanse in
which our feelings, thoughts, and sensations exist and have their source of
life. The result of this activity of our mental organs is experienced by each
person as consciousness of a unique self (or ‘the me that I am’). This is what is called human “life.” The
consciousness of self is life. It is our life, each of us immortal humans. We
have it forever – self or life. This life is the life of our neos.

If we stop producing neos we cease to have life. We are
then in a mental zone called death. Our consciousness experiences darkness,
ignorance, fear, stupidity, insanity, suffering, a being enslaved to animal like
lusts devoid of humanity, rationality, compassion, knowledge. Death is also
called hell. No neos are produced in hell. The mental layer where hell operates
in every human mind is devoid of neo production, which belongs to life and
sanity. Mental children are stillborn in hell. Infernal ideas in hell are
anti-neotic, contrary to inventiveness, which is from the higher
layers of the
mental world called heaven.

Only love in the heavenly layers of our mind is capable of
bringing neo-babies into eternity. A heavenly love, like the love of doing
things that are useful, or the love of being sincere and truthful, seeks out a
rational justification or idea with which that love can conjoin itself as a
synergistic functioning unit. The good love is a reception in the affective
organ of the spiritual heat inflowing from the Spiritual Sun in the midst of the
mental world. Every individual’s mind is exposed to the same Spiritual Sun in
eternity. The same spiritual heat inflows into every individual’s affective
organ, but is received uniquely according to the individual’s innate and
developing uniqueness to eternity. Hence it is that the affective operation from
the reception of spiritual heat creates a unique love, a unique self, along with
unique inventiveness, and finally unique neos.

The neo-baby is born from the marriage between the love in
the affective organ and the understanding in the cognitive organ, that is, the
marriage between good and truth. This is called the spiritual marriage in the
Swedenborg Reports. It is the basis for regeneration and salvation, consequently
our ability to live in our heavenly
layers in eternity. The spiritual marriage
is the synergistic conjunction between our will, which consists of our loves
(affective organ), and our understanding, which consists of our awareness of
rational things (cognitive organ). Love marries understanding and begets a neo.
The neo is born in our sensorimotor organ. This is the closest that our mind
gets to the physical world where our physical body is located. The sensorimotor
layer of the corporeal mind (layer 9S) is adjacent to the physical body (layer
12), with the spiritual body (layer 10) and the limbus (layer 11) intervening
between the mental and the physical, the eternal and the temporal.

Neos in the sensorimotor layer of the corporeal mind (layer
9S) make an appearance in the concrete physical world (layer 12) through
language that is spoken, heard, or written by the physical body. The neo lives
within the meaning of the verbal expression. The Swedenborg Reports show that
the neos of Divine Speech exist within every verbal expression in Sacred
Scripture. They are lined up in a rational series or arrangement like the DNA of
the cells of the physical body. The spiritual DNA series of every Divine neo is
available to us by extraction from Sacred Scripture, using the method of
correspondences that is revealed in the Swedenborg Reports.

Neo-extraction methodology involves the following:

Studying the laws of correspondences revealed in the Swedenborg Reports

Organizing them into a scientific account called “doctrine of truth from
Sacred Scripture”

Applying this doctrine to our daily willing and thinking by undergoing
spiritual combat through temptations, which we face by means of our
understanding of the doctrine of truth and our
reliance on God even as we fight as-if
our self, consequently with effort, anxiety, and mental pain.

This three-step process is repeated every day,
every hour of our life on earth, until at death, we reach the point of full
regeneration of character. When we resuscitate a few hours later, we have our
regenerated loves which make it possible for us to live in them, and they exist
at the heavenly layers of human existence and consciousness. Everyone lives in
their loves. If these loves are evil loves, sourced in the Grand Monster layers
of the mind, then they live in hell. But in heaven, if these loves are sourced
in the Grand Human, where only good loves exist.

Step 3 above is the spiritual marriage. It is the operation
of a heavenly love – opposing evil traits in our mind, with a rational idea or
plan – doctrine of truth from Sacred Scripture. The desire and intention to
oppose our evil traits is a love in our will (affective organ). This love is
received there from the spiritual heat inflowing. This love by itself cannot
bring forth results in the sensorimotor behavior. Love gets pregnant with an
idea and a plan. The sensorimotor executes the plan from the love. Understanding
of truth, or rationality, has no ability to bring forth a single neo. It is the
love of using that understanding that brings forth the neo. We can know truth,
but it will makes us free only if we live the truth, and this requires loving
the truth. Without love, truth is cold and infertile. Dead. Love appears as
truth. The love that is implanted in truth gives it life. Truth applied to our
willing and thinking is hot from love. Truth not applied, is cold and dead,
without power or life. Truth separated is not genuine truth but appears as truth
under certain loves that are not heavenly. The love of self for the sake of
self, or the love of greed, etc., can engender the effort of gathering truths
and thinking intelligently and adaptively. But in the end, self and greed only
lead to falsified truths, insanity, and a non-human life of death in the hell
zones of eternity.

The Swedenborg Reports reveal that during the life of the
first generations of people on this earth there was no evil. There was a
potential of evil in the mental world of eternity in layers 9, 8, and 7. In
other words God creates the natural mind to be able to operate in a manner that
is contrary to the heavenly order of good and truth which inflows into the
spiritual mind of every person since birth. The spiritual substance of good, in
the form of spiritual heat enters the affective organ of the spiritual mind
(layers 4A, 5A, 6A), and the spiritual substance of truth, in the form of
spiritual light enters the cognitive organ of every human being (layers 4C, 5C,
6C). Those who have disconnected from the physical body and have passed into
resuscitation, perceive this influx directly since their conscious awareness of
life is no longer in the natural mind (layers 9, 8, 7).

After resuscitation into the mental world of eternity, the
natural
layers of the mind are disconnected from our conscious awareness, and
replacing that life is the new immortal life of the spiritual mind. The loves
and understandings we then have determine the nature of our consequent external
sensorimotor life. During the early generations all the varieties of love people
experienced on this earth in the conscious natural mind (layers 9, 8, 7), were
in correspondence with the varieties of love that inflow into the spiritual mind
from the Spiritual Sun in the mental layers of eternity (layers 4, 5, 6).
Everything in nature was friendly to human beings because it was a garden
paradise in the order of heavenly gardens and paradises that are spiritual and
mental, thus eternal and truly real.

God created the operation of devolution in the natural mind
as a potential. Why? Why not have a permanent heaven on earth, as the
generations multiply, pass on, and populate the Grand Human of eternal conjugial
heavens. This is God’s Divine purpose revealed in Sacred Scripture. In the
Swedenborg Reports God explains, through the mind of Swedenborg, why He created
the devolution potential in the natural mind. God compares the human race to a
growing vine, or its branches. Sometimes God compares a human being to a tree.
As our modern mind knows from science, all organic species have a built in
capacity and endeavor to reproduce themselves. What is less generally known is
the cause of this process of reproduction and transmission of inherited
characteristics in physical bio-organisms and species.

The Swedenborg Reports expand our scientific understanding
of the process of generational transmission or inheritance. The natural process
of inheritance of traits in the physical world, is a representative model of the
original process of inheritance of traits in the mental world of eternity where
we have our spiritual body from birth onward. What is being transmitted from
parent to offspring in the mental world of eternity where we live our conscious
and unconscious lives?

Loves are being transmitted and inherited.

The loves that the parents have are reproduced in the
mental genes of each unique soul and mind. The mental
layers of the parents are
reproduced in the mental layers of the offspring. What the parents and
grandparents and great grand parents love, that will also be loved by the next
generation. Loves are inherited. The spiritual body at our birth houses the
three mental systems of our life – affective (feelings, intentions), cognitive
(thoughts, imagination), and sensorimotor (outside world interactions). Each
mental system is an organic entity that is constructed out of the fibers of
substances flowing in from the Spiritual Sun. These substances of good (heat)
and truth (light) are living, immortal, and Divine.

Loves are affective operations with these living Divine
substances. God is “within us” in actual organic sense since these substances of
the Spiritual Sun are His Own Loves and Truths. God creates the universe by
means of these substances that are His Own. There is nothing else out of which
anything can be created (certainly not out of nothing). Everything that exists
comes from something prior to itself, as discussed in the Swedenborg Reports.
God alone, and His Own Eternal Substances, are prior to existence and belong to
Being, which is eternal and infinite, having no beginning. God’s Being, in the
form of the Spiritual Sun, makes up the platform of existence, which includes
eternity and time. This is the meaning of “God is within us.”

Rationality sees that God’s substances cannot mix with
created objects or minds. Infinite substances cannot mix with finite objects.
Hence this platform that is the Being for existence is within existence, not
mixed up with existence. Existence and Being are forever separated and can never
be continuous with each other. Being must remain separate for existence to
exist. This separation is called distinct degrees. The Divine and the created
are in separate degrees, When the Divine is within the created it is called a
relationship of correspondence. The Being is the original and real, while the
existing is an image of it in an altogether separate and lower construction.

The mental world of eternity is the first organic existence
on the exterior and beneath the Spiritual Sun. There are six
layers for the
spiritual and natural minds, three each. The outermost layer of existence is 12,
which is the physical body and the natural world that supports it. The closest
layer to the order of the Spiritual Sun is layer 4 in the mental world of
eternity. Every individual is born with this layer in the mind. This is the
highest potential for created human beings. It is called the Third Heaven in the
Swedenborg Reports.

In the original generations, spiritual love and truth
flowed into layer 4, then successively into
layers 5 through 9, which is the
corporeal mind and consciousness that is formed from the sensations of the
physical body. The entire chain of discrete layers of correspondences remained
in the order of heaven (layer 4) that was formed by God through the Spiritual
Sun as His Own Loves and Truths. Physical earth was a paradise, a heaven on
earth, an earth that models the heavenly order, the heavenly loves, which model
God’s Divine Human Loves.

People lived in families in harmony with nature and
themselves. There was no guile, no desire to lie or possess the goods of others.
There was loyalty in marriage and friendship. There was sincerity in all
communication. This heavenly order in the natural mind could not be achieved by
imposition through God’s Omnipotence. The loves that each human baby inherited
were not the individual’s own loves. They were merely present to the individual.
Each love had to be made one’s own before the person could become a mature adult
ready for eternity in the spiritual mind. To achieve this process of individual
ownership of loves after they’ve been inherited, God faces the person with a
choice of accepting and loving that love, or not loving it, and leaving it to
sink into the silent background.

To accept and love an inherited love we must consummate it
as a habit. This makes that love our own forever. When we are resuscitated this
love will be with us in our consciousness and will be active in determining the
quality and nature of our continuing life. Every love we acquire by practice
remains forever as a portion of the mental world attached to us, forming us,
determining who we then are.

This choice-making procedure cannot be actualized in human
beings without giving them a comparison between heavenly loves and infernal
loves, that is, loves that are in the heavenly order vs. loves that are the
opposite of the heavenly order.

The capacity to choose the opposite of good is the origin
of evil in the human mind.

For instance, among the numberless loves we inherit is the
enjoyment of winning. God sets up events in each person’s daily biography which
are occasions for the person to experience the joy of winning. It becomes our
own love as we strive to acquire the various skills needed for winning and
succeeding. As we acquire this love we also acquire many of its sub-loves or
affections. For instance, we acquire skills of deceit to help us win and
succeed, and we enjoy these insincerities and manipulations when they are
successful. God activates our conscience to indicate to us that these side-loves
are not compatible with heavenly loves. And now we have a moral and spiritual
choice.

We discover from experience (arranged and managed by God),
that we have loves that are contrary to heavenly loves. Instruction from Sacred
Scripture informs us that these un-heavenly loves are called hellish loves, and
that we must voluntarily choose to reject them, even though we enjoy them
intensely.

This is difficult to do, so God provides assistance at
every step of the process. It is called the process of regeneration. This
involves our inherited loves and all the sub-loves that we have made our own by
practicing them and allowing ourselves to enjoy them, to make them a part of our
character forever. Regeneration is the long process of daily choices that God
manages to bring us in order to allow us to consciously reject the inherited
enjoyments that are contrary to heavenly order.

As we grow and mature, we make more choices of our own. If
our choices are progressively towards the hellish order, our natural mind
becomes more and more a model of hell. What we enjoy is hellish, like the fun of
vandalizing, the enjoyment of getting away with deceiving or stealing, the lust
of indecency, the disdain of others in comparison to self, etc. These hellish
enjoyments are the opposite of heavenly enjoyments, such as the desire to be
useful to others, the zeal of honesty, the love of truth, the humility of self
in comparison to others, etc.

The purpose of life on earth is to acquire heavenly loves
which form our experience in eternity. These can be acquired only by voluntary
choice and regular practice. Hence the potential for evil must be created in the
human mind to permit us to grow into true human beings. The Swedenborg Reports
define what is the true human mind, namely, to choose good from the
understanding of truth. We learn truth from Sacred Scripture and conscience, and
this truth teaches that we ought to choose good in order to fulfill our
potential for being true humans.

When we choose what is contrary to good, the truth in our
understanding becomes falsified truth. This falsified truth now justifies the
choice of what is contrary to good. When this justification in the cognitive
organ marries the enjoyment of what is contrary to good in the affective organ,
the infernal marriage takes place, and the result of it, is the sensorimotor
hells in the natural mind.

Likewise, when we use truth to justify our choice for good,
we create the spiritual marriage in our mind, and this establishes a heavenly
order in our natural mind. We then love and enjoy what is good, love and enjoy
willing, thinking and doing what is
good. We abhor what is contrary and threatening to heavenly loves. We understand
that the wages of sin is death. After resuscitation we can no longer possess
both heavenly and hellish traits in our conscious mind. God manages to embroil
us in events that are occasions for expressing our ruling love and its chief
sub-loves. They come out from behind. These loves now demand the attention of
the cognitive organ’s understanding, its ability to manufacture falsified truths
and principles that acknowledge these loves as good.

With this development, the mental world goes topsy turvy.
What is true is turned into falsification of truth. What is irrational is turned
into the false appearance of reasoning. Now heaven is despised, and feared.
Swedenborg was able to do an experiment in which some heavenly neos were written
on a piece of paper in layer 4 of the mental world of eternity. By Divine
Providence and Management, the truths written on the paper reappeared in
appropriate correspondences at each layer as it appeared to descend the layers
of the human mind. The appearance of a representative paper in the zone of
resuscitation was noted by some people who were in that mental state, with whom
Swedenborg was having a discussion.

These people were normally in their Grand Monster states
called the hells, but when there is a purpose for it, they are permitted by
God’s management procedures to appear in the zone of resuscitation. This is the
mental state we all have when we are resuscitated. Our conscious awareness is
then in a divided state. This is possible only in external states (layers 9, 8, 7e). This is our natural mind while we are conscious with it here on earth. When
we are awakened by the resuscitation process, which takes about 30 hours from
death, we are able to recognize our self as the same person who was conscious on
earth. This provides a continuity of life, and a progressive introduction into
the consciousness of our spiritual mind, which had remained unconscious until
then.

The people from the Grand Monster, now in the resuscitation
zone, were shown the piece paper on which was written spiritual truths expressed
in natural mind correspondences. They were asked to read what was written on the
paper. And what they saw and read was the precise opposite of the assertion
written down. This provided evidence that the natural layers of the mind have
the capability to invert truths and to produce clever and ingenious reasoning
that confirms the reality of the inversion.

Take for instance the truth that God’s omnipotence must
express itself in both general and in particular, so that there is no detail
about anything that is not managed by God. This includes therefore the details
of our thinking. People are willing to accept the general idea that God is
omnipotent, but not the specific idea that God manages our thoughts. They think
and say: God doesn’t manage our thoughts because that’s our business. Or that
God doesn’t manage the blood corpuscles movements in our arteries because those
obey the natural laws that God put in place at creation.

People also say that God sometimes cannot save someone from
suffering or death because there is evil in this world that God has not yet
vanquished. These statements or reasonings are falsifications of the simple
rational truth that God is Omnipotent. In the Swedenborg Reports rational
explanations are given regarding how God’s Omnipotence insures that only those
events or thoughts can occur for which God gives permission, and only those are
allowed which God turns into the spiritual and eternal benefit of all involved.
God’s Omnipotence maintains a perfect world, both natural and mental (or
spiritual).

For every heavenly neo, there is a corresponding un-neo.
The loves of those who live in the Grand Monster are exact opposites of the
loves with the people in the Grand Human. The reality of heavenly life is turned
into the un-reality of hellish life. Heavenly neos create a sensorimotor
environment and appearance of heavenly beauty, grandeur, and peace. The un-neos
of the hell
layers create a sensorimotor environment and appearance of
hostility, insanity, and suffering. The insanity and ferocity of loves in that
state of mind immerses the consciousness in dreadful fantasies that are induced
on each other, and lived like never ending nightmares. All spiritual light and
heat, or truth and love, that inflow into the spiritual layers of the mind in
these people, is turned into its exact opposite love and meaning of truth when
the inflow reaches their natural mind in its descent of correspondences across
successive layers.

To continue existing in the Grand Monster states of the
mind people there have to continue to exert effort in inverting every heavenly
neo that comes their way in conscious awareness. Swedenborg visited those awful
mental states and talked to the people who exist there permanently. They are
each active in the group fantasy life of insanity. The variety of nightmares
they live is astounding, captured in essence in the book
Heaven and
Hell (1758).

Prior to resuscitation, while our natural mind is filled
with the content and events of the physical world, we are a mixed bag. Our
natural mind consciousness is filled with both neos from our heavenly loves that
are sourced in the Grand Human, as well as un-neos from our hellish loves that
are sourced in the Grand Monster. Self-observation on your daily round of
activities will demonstrate this to you. One moment you smile at your roommate,
and a few moments later, having heard or seen something you don’t like, your
face takes on a stern appearance and there is vengeance and retaliation in your
voice and actions. Some time later you smile again and are filled with the
desire to be friendly and useful. An hour later as you drive home you denigrate
a motorist for being in your way. You feel impatient to get home. You take risks
in the way you drive, allowing yourself to be distracted, posing a threat to
innocent others. You think about someone you don’t like and you enjoy the
fantasies of their demise and suffering. You get home and you start cooking for
others who will soon arrive. You have a love for preparing dishes in the way the
others enjoy and prefer. You want to satisfy them. You get mad at a stranger on
the phone who is doing a survey. You retaliate for being disturbed, attempting
to make the person feel bad before you hang up. Before bed, you study Sacred
Scripture and pray to God to give you happiness and success.

You can adapt his generalized scenario to your own daily
round. Do some self-witnessing. Make a record of the number of times a day your
mind is in a heavenly love, and when in a hellish love. There is no need to be
exhaustive. Just sample the highlights. You will then see the evidence for the
spiritual principle that we oscillate between heaven and hell on any normal day
of our life on earth. Some people’s heaven-hell oscillation is slow, remaining
in one or the other for periods of time, while other people alternate quickly
between heavenly and hellish loves.

This oscillation ceases at our second death when we enter
either the Grand Human or the Grand Monster, and become fully and completely
integrated in one of the societies there, and this forever. Individual thinking
then resembles group thinking, and individual feeling and intention is actually
a group feeling and intention. This is because the spiritual body in mental
ether does not offer the same resistance as the physical body in the natural
world. People living in a specific spiritual society act together as a mental
unit, or generalized other that Swedenborg calls “subject spirit.” He observed
on his mental visits to the Grand Human and Grand Monster, that it is common for
a spiritual society to speak and intend as one group mind, speaking through one
of them whom they appoint as the subject spirit. So when Swedenborg talked to
one individual in that society, others, and perhaps all the others, were also
present in the exchange, though they could not be seen.

These phenomena reveal the nature of our life after
resuscitation into the mental world of eternity, which is quite different than
the nature of our life on earth. Our life here serves to give us opportunities
for acquiring heavenly loves, such as exist with those who exist in the Grand
Human societies (layers 6, 5, 4). God manages these opportunities, creating the
occasions in which we can act from the marriage in our mind of truth and good
inflowing from God through the Spiritual Sun of the mental world of eternity in
which we are born and in which we remain forever after. Consequently, it is
absolutely necessary that we be a mixed bag in our character here on earth,
loving both good and corrupted good, and thinking both truths and falsified
truths.

This co-mingling spiritual soup in our mind establishes the
freedom to choose loves. Our eternal destiny is based on the quality of these
chosen loves. The loves that are sourced in the Grand Monster betake us there,
while the loves that are sourced in the Grand Human, betakes us there. We are
our loves, and we live where those loves exist. Falsified cognitive neos create
an imaginary un-reality that nurtures and satisfies corrupted affective neos.
The two form an infernal marriage that spews out un-neo babies of sensorimotor
illusions and delusions which immerse their consciousness in un-satisfiable
lust, stupefying fear, un-imaginable suffering, sub-human stupidity, and furious
hatred of everything and everyone. In short, the un-reality of un-neos is a
sub-human mental state.

Upon resuscitation we are in a mental state called the
resuscitation zone. Mental physiology then takes its inevitable course. The
person’s ruling love must take total charge of the affective organ. The mixture
of heavenly and hellish loves in our natural mind must now be undone. No one can
enter their permanent mental state in the Grand Human or the Grand Monster
without first eliminating the loves that are incompatible. Swedenborg was given
to observe what happens when people in the resuscitation zone are still unclear
about which ruling love they have grown in themselves over the years of life on
earth. He accompanied a group of them who resuscitated together on account of
some disaster they were in on earth. They were persuaded of the idea that they
deserved to go to heaven on account of their faithful adherence to the rituals
of their religion.

They were taken to one of the societies in the Grand Human,
using the heavenly loves they possessed. But as soon as they had arrived into
that mental state within themselves, they became very disturbed and acted with
great agitation, complaining that they saw nothing, heard nothing, experienced
nothing, except this inner pain that felt like they were dying all over again.
They were then brought back into their former mental state they had in the
resuscitation zone, where they felt completely revived and ready to continue
their journey to the second death. Eventually they were integrated into one of
the societies of the Grand Monster, where they could feel at home and on a
familiar territory of loves.

This event demonstrates that the mental states in the Grand
Human and Grand Monster are purified from any mixture. This purification process
is physiological. Every mind contains two ruling loves, each with their own army
of compatible and assisting administrative sub-loves. All loves in the mental
world of humanity fall into two categories, as for instance:

·the love
of self for the sake of self alone vs. the love of self for the sake of others
as well as self

·the love
of things for the sake of self alone vs. the love of things for the sake of
others as well as self

·the love
of ruling over others for the sake of self alone vs. the love of ruling over
others for the sake of others as well as self

These three sets of opposite loves are the chief loves
Swedenborg encountered in the afterlife of eternity. Think of something you did
in the past hour that you loved to do and felt its satisfaction or enjoyment.
For instance, you thought about phoning your friend, and after doing it you felt
satisfied. Some love got you to think about calling, calling, and finishing the
conversation. What was this love? It could have been the love of conjoining
mentally with the person you called. Or, it could have been the hatred of that
person, and the calling allowed you to express your retaliation and punishment.
The satisfaction of punishing and retaliating is a love for the sake of self
alone, hence a hellish love sourced in the Grand Monster. Or perhaps you called
to give the person some information you knew they would want, information that
might help the person in their effort to get a job or succeed in a useful
project. This is a love for the sake of others as well as self, hence a heavenly
love sourced in the Grand Human.

The love of something for the sake of self alone produces
un-neos with which that infernal love can produce a hellish sensorimotor
environment in which to enjoy that infernal love. The love of something for the
sake of others as well as self, produces genuine rational neos with which that
heavenly love can produce a heavenly sensorimotor environment in which to enjoy
that heavenly love. Every love in the affective organ produces its own neos in
the cognitive organ, with which to be conjoined as in a marriage, and thereby
engender the neo world around the person who is the subject of that love. This
exterior world of mental appearances can be shared with others who have this
love within them. In this way, a group of people in the mental world form a
spiritual society in which the outward world is shared in common. This outward
world exists in the sensorimotor organ or system and is projected by
representatives in the social environment, creating the subjective experiences
of being in a “city” or attending a “conference” or singing in a choir, etc.
There are multiple activities going on in every spiritual society that
Swedenborg visited. The continuity of loves maintains the continuity of neos,
which maintain the outward appearances of eternal life. Hence it is that after
our second death our position in a spiritual society remains forever. It is our
ruling love that keeps us there in eternity. Every love is eternal because it is
constructed out of the eternal substances of the Spiritual Sun.

You can now see that the switchover from the reality of
neos to the un-reality of un-neos begins at resuscitation and is complete at our
second death. Swedenborg notes that this is a relatively short period, when
viewed through his earth consciousness. He was a dual citizen of both worlds for
27 years according to his earth life, so that he was able to observe that most
people are inducted into either the Grand Human or Grand Monster within a few
days, weeks, or months, of earth time, depending on individual make up. It made
sense for Swedenborg to estimate things in terms of time, but for the people
going through the process there was no impression of time since this belongs
only to the physical body, which is left behind as inert.

What determines the quality of our ruling love at our
second death?

It is the process of regeneration prior to resuscitation
that allows us to replace our inherited enjoyment of hellish loves. This process
requires that we acknowledge God, study Sacred Scripture for the knowledge of
what is good and evil, and then using this knowledge of truth to battle against
our selfish loves by which we desire to own things and do things for our sake
alone. Battling the temptations that God brings into our mind every day is the
only way of acquiring heavenly loves as our own. This process takes the entire
lifetime and God bring a series of events and temptations systematically
designed by Him to face our loves for the sake of self alone, to battle against
them by means of truths, and to compel ourselves to act as if from the love of
others as well as self. Eventually this heavenly love will become our own
genuine love so that we become ready to undergo resuscitation process of
purification, and finally, the process of physiological induction into the
organs of the Grand Human or Grand Monster.

The Grand Human societies are in layers 6, 5, 4 of the
spiritual mind, while the Grand Monster societies are in layers 9, 8, 7 of the
natural mind. While we are on earth the spiritual
layers are unconscious but
operational, influencing by correspondence what goes on in the natural layers.
The natural layers are a mixed bag, as discussed above, containing heavenly and
hellish loves. Regeneration is a physiological process that must take place
prior to resuscitation, while we are still filled with loves of both kinds, and
God keeps us in a balance between the two. This balance is necessary for the
free exercise of our choices for type of love. When we undergo regeneration, our
spiritual layers are readied for conscious operation immediately after
resuscitation. Those who are regenerated prior to resuscitation, can then after
resuscitation, function in the spiritual mind, in which are the layers of the
Grand Human. But those who are not regenerated prior to resuscitation do not
have their spiritual mind operational after resuscitation. Consequently, people
have to make do with an existence in the natural mind.

This is contrary to the order of creation, and contrary to
the order of mental ether around the Spiritual Sun. As a result, the subjective
life of the person in eternity is stuck in the natural mind. These
layers (9, 8,
7) now become corrupted as the heavenly loves are removed from them in the
purification process prior to the second death. The person becomes a mere
caricature of their former self. The Grand Monster societies are all located in
these corrupted natural layers. The people who are in that mental state are
insane in a rational world of truth and good. They change truth into falsity and
good into evil. What they believe to be reality, is unreality. All their
thoughts are un-neos, falsified from the real neos, to which they hang on as
truth and as reality. Everything in their sensorimotor world is turned upside
down.

Those who are in the Grand Monster societies become the
source of un-neos for the natural mind of people on the numberless earths in the
physical universe. Their function is to provide the continuity of inherited evil
enjoyments in the minds of people on earth, so that these may provide a mental
balance with the neos of the people who are in the Grand Human societies. In
this way the mind of every individual on the earths is connected to the minds of
people in eternity, in both chambers.

The entire human race is thus kept together by God in one
perfectly functioning synergistic entity.

In the Swedenborg Reports God reveals a new scientific
theory about how human being communicate. Currently, scientists believe that
when we communicate, meaning is being transmitted from one person to another.
For example, when I say to my students gathered in a class room, “Today there
will be three students giving their oral presentations.” The speech act I
uttered in the context of our semester long course, conveys a specific message
through its meaning. Now the students know some things they didn’t know before I
made the announcement. They understood the meaning of my speech act. They each
can make the same predictions of the future of that day’s class. Usually, after
the second oral presentation, they start their team meetings, but today, they
know from the meaning of my message, that there will then be a third student
giving an oral presentation.

Scientists who study how people talk and exchange meanings,
usually explain that the meaning of a communicative act is analyzed and fixed by
cognitive operations or process. First we isolate the message from its
background of sounds and then analyze the words and their arrangement by
linguistic skills we learn in childhood.

Heavenly loves are living mental substances (spiritual
heat) which strive to be fulfilled by what is outside of themselves and separate
from them.

·The
fulfillment of each unique heavenly love is to see itself in another human
being.

·Love
(A) perceives through the senses (S) what is usable for its fulfillment, and
sharpens their power (S) of detecting or locating what is usable by that
love to fulfill itself.

·Love
directs cognitive operations (C) to formulate a plan or method of attaining
its fulfillment.

·
Heavenly love is fulfilled when it can see its own good in another person,
by recognizing the good of that love when it appears in the other person.

Every love is
unique, possessing some unique feature of good, some unique virtue or quality.

Divine Love in the form of spiritual heat, is within every
unique heavenly love, and causes that heavenly love to appear in human beings,
that is, to be received in the affective organ.

Now the Divine Love is within the heavenly love that a
human being can feel or be motivated by. The heavenly loves possessed by human
beings are dead without the Divine Love within them, which is what is its life.
The Divine Love cannot be divided into pieces of itself. In the Divine Love
infinite unique loves exist as one Divine Love. When the Divine Love is received
in the affective organ of an individual, all of the Divine Love is within each
of the heavenly loves the individual may possess. We may possess numerous
heavenly loves, and in each of them the Divine Love is present in full. This is
what it means that the Divine cannot be divided.

The Divine Love inflows into the affective organ
successively for each of its six discrete
layers (4 down to 9). The Divine Love
as it inflows into humanity, takes on a fourth covering in layer 4A, called the
celestial-rational loves. It then takes additional covering in layer 5A
(spiritual-rational loves), and layer 6A (spiritual-natural loves). This
completes the “descent” of Divine Love into the layers of the spiritual mind.
There is no corruption of the Divine Love, but only adaptation in the variety of
human genius created by God. Now the Divine Love, covered over with 6 mental
layers, takes on a seventh mental covering as it crosses into the natural mind.
Starting with this natural layer (7), the Divine Love creates for the first time
the Divine Law of Permissions, and continues this Law into covering 8, and
finally into covering 9, which is the corporeal mind whose loves (9A) fulfill
themselves in the physical world. Layer 8 loves (8A) fulfill themselves in the
operations of the operations of the cognitive organ, while layer 7 loves (7A)
find their fulfillment in the operations of the affective organ.

The Divine Law of Permissions allows the creation of mental
zones in the natural mind where the Grand Monster societies can form and
continue their immortal existence. This is our inherited anatomical connection
to the hells. God creates the mental world of eternity with facilities to serve
both the Grand Human heavens, and the Grand Monster hells. Both types of loves
exist in the human mind from birth. Heavenly loves in the natural mind represent
and correspond the uncorrupted layers of our spiritual mind. These heavenly
loves in our natural mind allow the spiritual mind to grow and be serviceable
for us at our resuscitation. We can acquire a heavenly love as our very own only
when we first banish from our mind the hellish loves that correspond to it in
its opposite. God brings us to events which give us an opportunity to reject the
contrary love from hell. In the Swedenborg Reports this is called “shunning
evils as sins.” With each episode, God makes sure that we are not tempted beyond
our ability or readiness to resist. Resisting a temptation as-if of our own will
power, allows God to remove that evil love and neutralize it so it never comes
to haunt us again.

Creating facilities for the hells in the natural mind
allows God to present us with temptations. Without spiritual temptations we
would never be able to perceive that we are inverted, and what we call good is
actually taking us to hell, and what God calls good is what can take us to
heaven, we call evil. The presence of evil in the natural
layers of the mind is
allowed by the Law of Permissions in order to fulfill the Divine Love which
wants to give the good of eternal conjugial happiness to every human being. Hell
serves the Divine Love by providing a balance in the natural mind between good
and evil traits. Only if we know both can we choose from our own love. What we
choose from our own love, remains forever as ours.

God provides the process of regeneration for every
individual on earth through the desire to improve and to be good. This desire is
aroused in each person through the inflow of spiritual heat. As the individual
is regenerating through resisting temptations, the inherited and acquired
connections to the Grand Monster societies in the natural mind, are gradually
and progressively eliminated or silenced. More and more that individual’s life
on earth becomes a representative of the spiritual mind (or heaven). At death
and resuscitation, the person’s natural mind is quickly silenced and embalmed,
and the person continues eternal life in the Grand Human, which is the spiritual
mind. But if the person resists regeneration by killing the implanted love of
becoming good, the connection to the Grand Human in the spiritual mind, is cut
or embalmed. After resuscitation the person lives in the natural mind, which is
now one with the Grand Monster.

Besides being the short form for neologism, the word neo
refers to a mental operation or state of one individual that is being induced
upon another individual.

Ordinarily the word communication, or to communicate,
refers to one person constructing a message that carries some meaning, and
attaching it to a conventional sensorimotor performance, or signal, in the
sphere of another person, who is in a position of detecting, or noticing it, and
of reacting to it by performing a conventional sensorimotor response to which
the person attached some meaning. The two people ordinarily alternate turns for
performing for each other. Ethnomethodologists (Sacks, Shegloff, Sudnow, come to
mind), have studied the alternating patterns of conversationalists when there
are more than two participants, and the sequence of mutual performances reflect
the affective neo ball game that is going on, as well as reflecting the
cognitive (or meaning of the message).

Ethnomethodologists have not yet, as far as I know,
discussed the idea that conversational interaction involves the induction of
mental states on each other. That’s what a neo does. Consider as an instance,
the actuality of two people riding in a car, and the driver and passenger are
talking to each other. From the materialistic plane of analysis (layer 8C) we
can say that the two conversationalists are in a car traveling together across
streets and roads. But from the rational plane of analysis (layer 7C) we can see
that the two people are not actually in a car traveling across city streets,
which we can see is an appearance that pictures or represents, the real e vent
that is going on with the people, namely, that they are having a mental state
exchange, taking turns inducing upon each other, some particular mental state
they select for the occasion.

This exchange of mental states proceeds by affective
induction, which then engenders a cognitive construction that corresponds to it,
and unites with it, to produce the performative sensorimotor neo that embodies
the mental state. The alternating turn taking of neo selection is the basis of
community life. Consider for instance the turn taking rituals you participated
in today. You enter a room and say “Hi” -- or one of the many other existing
formulaic expressions that are used in your group when entering a room.
Performing “Hi” through your sensorimotor determination, is the outward
conventional (agreed upon and practiced) signal that packs the affective neo.
That’s what a performance does in a social exchange. A conventionalized
sensorimotor performance is the interactional occasion, or detectable event,
that induces a new mental state in the other conversationalist. Hence the
performance is called a neo, which makes its appearance as the verbalization of
“Hi” along with its tone, facial configuration, and gestures (or paralinguistic
features).

Note that a neo is a full service transactional device. It
involves the other person in a mental wrap around the entire spiritual body and
changes the state in all three of its organic systems – affective, cognitive,
and sensorimotor. Neos are social procedures people use for inducing mental
states on each other.

Various neo-production practices exist in each spiritual
society. Neo selection when you walk into a room is an open ended set since the
ability of the other to detect and receive neos has no specifiable limits. For
example, instead of walking into the room and performing a formulaic greeting,
you can walk in backward, carrying a big bag, with your key chain in your mouth,
and mouthing an indistinct sound as you widen your eyes big, and hurry across
the room. You can be a stage director and imagine any number of ways someone
might be able to perform a greeting neo while entering a room. By selecting a
particular sensorimotor neo to perform in a social event, you are fulfilling a
particular love you have. In other words, your affective organ is in a
particular state of reward or consummation, when you experience the fulfillment
of that love, as you go through with the performance of the particular neo you
selected.

The other person who is the recipient or beneficiary of
your performative neo, perceives the unique and inventive quality of good that
is in your love. Love perceives love. One person’s love is detected by another
person’s love. The two loves find each other, meet, and react. The reaction
consists of a collection of new affective neos being experienced by each.
Conversational interaction is a conventionalized dance or gyre in which
tremulations of affective neos expand in patterned ripples across the entire
expanse of the mental world of eternity. These modulations of mental states
ultimately affect every human mind. Right now as you are reading this your
mental state is affected by the neo ripples initiated by countless others in the
societies of the Grand Human and Grand Monster (see my article on the Perizonius
Thesis for more details). When you say “Hi” to someone, you are involving the
entire humanity. Every neo you produce ripples across eternity. Every neo others
produce ripple across your mind.

The neo ball game is the actuality of life. Human beings
appear as individuals outwardly, but inwardly we are connected and networked
through the Grand Human and Grand Monster. One way to think about it rationally
is to consider the logical implications of the Divine Law revealed in the
Swedenborg Reports, namely, that ‘In God, infinite things are together as one.’

I discussed earlier the idea that the Divine Neo, in the
form of spiritual heat and light flowing from the Spiritual Sun in the mental
world of eternity, enters our affective and cognitive organs, producing there
heavenly neos. These heavenly neos are our loves and understandings in
operation, the two together being our very life. Each heavenly neo we possess
has the Divine Neo within it. An endless stream of heavenly neos issues from the
Divine Neo. Infinite things make a one, in the Divine Neo. Heavenly neos in our
spiritual mind are within natural neos in our natural mind. Hence every natural
neo we produce on our daily round of living, has the heavenly neos and the
Divine Neo within it. Hence it is that God is within every single thing that
exists. Since ‘In God, infinite things are together as one” therefore all things
that already exist are together as one in God. Hence all human beings, the
entire humanity of individuals here and in eternity, are together as one in God.
And from this you can now see that what happens in one individual’s mind must
necessarily influence the mind of every other individual in the human race.

God’s Omnipotence, God’s Love (or “Divine Good”), and God’s
Intelligence (or “Divine Wisdom”), are therefore the source and cause of
creation. They hold all existing things together as a universe. The function and
meaning of the universe are given by God’s Rational Purpose for creation. The
goal and plan of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are that human beings come into
life by conception and birth on some nurturing planet in a supportive community,
which allows the individual to grow and to become mature adults, whose minds are
a representative of the heavenly order of good and truth. In the love and wisdom
of people living in an eternal conjugial heaven, God finds His Divine Love and
Yearning fulfilled. This is then the purpose and plan that God has in creating
and evolving the universe.

The human heaven is the Grand Human and its endless
societies forming a networked and connected entity in the shape and function of
the human body. The life of this heaven is the neo ball game. The affective (A)
and cognitive (C) neos produced in the two mental organs (A and C), are the
feelings or intentions (A), and the meanings and understandings (C) we each have
in our consciousness or awareness. Each intention and each meaning is unique.
God’s Law of Infinity determines that only things that are unique can come into
existence. Every single thing that exists must be a neo, a new thing, a new
creation. This endless collection of unique mental neos is the evolving and
expanding life of humanity. Each neo can be born only once, and in only one
individual’s consciousness. Once the neo exists, it is transmitted to all the
zones of the mental world of eternity, permeating and reverberating in every
self and personality.

The charting of neos may be possible in future research
when humankind learns to extract that knowledge from Sacred Scripture. In the
meantime we can begin charting the neos that appear in our natural mind. This
article and project may hopefully serve to encourage others to engage in this
research.

The central shaft of every created thing is the Divine Neo,
also called the “Spiritual Sun” (Swedenborg Reports). From this inmost position
the Divine Neo exteriorizes into the discrete
layers of existence – first,
through the mental world of eternity (anatomical layers 4 through 9), then,
through the remaining layers of existence (10, 11, 12). This exteriorization is
called the “descent” of the Divine Neo because what is interior is superior,
while what is exterior is inferior. The exteriorization of the Divine Neo takes
place by successive coverings. Covering 4 is called celestial-rational
consciousness (or “Third Heaven”) and is formed by Divine Speech in the form of
Sacred Scripture written in celestial-rational correspondences. These are an
endless collection of heavenly neos in the affective and cognitive organs of the
those who exist consciously in that mental sphere. Third heaven neos are the
highest and most excellent of all human neos, being closest or purest in
reception of the spiritual heat and light that constitute the neos.

The Swedenborg Reports give an indication from Swedenborg’s
direct experience and observation, of what kind of consciousness we have when
our loves are celestial-rational correspondences of Divine Speech in Sacred
Scripture. Foremost in prominence about the people in that mental state, is that
conjugial couples, man and woman soul mates, are reciprocally fused into a
single conjoint self. From a distance Swedenborg saw each couple as one “Angel,”
but from close up he saw them as
husband and wife, each with their own beauty,
manner, and intelligence. The masculine portion of the conjoint self in mental
anatomy layer 4, is a representation and correspondence of the Divine Neo within
his affective organ. The husband in his inmost anatomy is masculine love. The
wife in her inmost anatomy is feminine intelligence. These inmost reciprocals
are conjoined in the celestial marriage. No particle of the husband’s mental
anatomy can be like anything in the wife’s mental anatomy. Their perfect
reciprocal unity is made possible by this absolute differentiation.

Every particle of the
husband’s mental anatomy strives to
conjoin itself with the corresponding feminine particle in the wife’s mental
anatomy. Wisdom corresponds to love, and love has its fulfillment in wisdom. The
celestial woman corresponds to wisdom (spiritual light), while the celestial man
corresponds to love (spiritual heat). Spiritual heat conjoins itself
irresistibly to spiritual light, forming the celestial marriage. This is caused
by the Divine Marriage, which is the conjunction of Divine Love with Divine
Wisdom in God’s Mind.

The Divine Neo, having filled layer 4 with
celestial-rational neos, and consequently, being now covered with covering 4,
then descends, or more accurately, appears in layer 5 (“Second Heaven”), which
it fills with spiritual-rational correspondences of Divine Speech in the Sacred
Scripture that appears there. Swedenborg saw the text of Sacred Scripture in
each of the three layers of the spiritual mind (4, 5, 6). He confirms by
observation that the three versions are correspondences of each other. Letter by
letter, word by word, the three versions correspond to each other precisely. The
Divine Neo under covering 5 appears under various Second Heaven neos, which are
so below in quality to Third Heaven neos (layer 4) that there was no
comprehension of anything across the two
layers. Even the simplest of ideas in
layer 4C are absolutely incomprehensible to layer 5C. The only possible
connection is that of correspondence, so that the idea in layer 5C is an exact
correspondence of the idea in layer 4C.

The descent or exteriorization of the Divine Neo then
appears in layer 6 (“First Heaven”) which becomes filled with spiritual-natural
correspondences of Sacred Scripture. Again the relationship is discrete, so that
the lowest or simplest idea in layer 5 is absolutely incomprehensible to layer 6
ideas and meanings. Now under covering 6 the Divine Neo leaves the perfection
and purity of the spiritual mind and takes on covering 7, which is the highest
portion of the natural mind. This mental state plays a critical role in our
regeneration, and consequently our salvation for life in heaven.

The natural-rational mind (layer 7) has two functional
parts, as already discussed. Layer 7i (“interior”) is the interior layer closest
to layer 6, which is the lowest portion of the spiritual mind. Layer 7e
(“external”) is the external layer closest to layer 8 (materialistic mind).
These two functions – 7i and 7e – initiate and direct the regeneration of our
natural mind. The work of the Divine Neo in these two layers is contrastive. It
is explained in detail in the Old Testament Sacred Scripture, through the
correspondences to the story of the four patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Joseph, each of whom represents the operations of the Descent of the Divine Neo
across the mental layers during regeneration. The creation of human
consciousness took many generations for its evolution, and attained its final
anatomical completion barely two thousand years ago, through the Incarnation
Event, which was the process by which God acquired a Divine Natural Mind and
Body on this earth. This process is described in Sacred Scripture as the
“Glorification of the human,” that is, the uniting of the earthly human with the
eternal Human Divine, so that the human becomes the Divine Human. During this
glorification process, which involved the most severe temptations of the
external human being prepared for becoming the Divine Human.

This spiritual physiological process is described in great
detail in the correspondential sense of the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament
Sacred Scripture. The Swedenborg Reports give a word by word analysis of the
entire Book, giving the correspondential sense, and showing how this makes a
perfect rational series with numerous sub-parts fitting into a whole. The
process of glorifying the external human involved expelling all the inherited
un-neos that filled the affective organ of every human. No human being was able
to do this. God could not appoint or prompt anyone to do this work. It
absolutely required that God Himself do this. It could not be delegated or done
through human beings, even angels. Neither was it possible for God to do this
directly in His full omnipotence, without destroying the Grand Monster, and its
countless numbers of societies, which would also destroy the Grand Human, as the
balance would no longer exist in the minds of people on earth (as discussed
above). The entire human race in both the world of time and the world of
eternity stood at the line of death and extinction.

The Grand Monster societies had become stronger in the
minds of people than the Grand Human societies. If this imbalance had continued,
no human being could be regenerated, and consequently everyone would have been
born for hell, and no one could have existed in heaven. By assuming for Himself
an external earthly personality and body, God on earth could accomplish what no
one could, namely, the salvation of the human race from destruction in the Grand
Monster. Those who are in the Grand Monster are called “dead” because nothing
human or heavenly, is functioning in them.

The existing external layer 7e in the natural-rational mind
looks outward and downward to the natural world. Every rational idea in layer 7e
is sourced in the materialistic abstractions of layer 8, which are grounded in
the sensory-corporeal mind that immediately controls and lives with the
sensations from the physical body. Scientific thinking has done considerable
progress as it moves from the observational data in layer 9 (e.g., “the sun is
rising”), to the abstracted theoretical explanations in layer 8 (e.g., “the
earth moves around the sun”). The progress continues still further when
scientific thinking operates in layer 7Ce (external portion of the
natural-rational layer). Examples include such ideas as “emergent phenomena,”
“hyper space,” “multiple realities,” or “morphic
resonance” (Sheldrake comes to mind). These super-ideas are grounded in
earthly ideas, which are grounded in sensory input, and consequently sourced in
the world of time, space, and matter. Level 7Ce thinking could not overcome the
hold of the Grand Monster societies upon every human’s natural mind on earth. No
regeneration was possible because this requires other-worldly ideas and power,
that is, ideas based in the spiritual mind (layers 6, 5, 4) and consequently on
the Spiritual Sun, not the natural sun.

Human consciousness had to be raised by a notch, a discrete
degree, to its final completion. This required creating mental layer 7i within
the natural-rational mind. This was accomplished in His own mind by the external
human who was being prepared to become the infinite Natural Body and Mind of
God. The process of glorification was completed at the death and resurrection of
the external human, now the Divine Human. A new Divine entity was created in the
created world. From then on, anatomical
layer 7 of every human mind, past, present, and future, possesses an external
and an interior portion or function. The interior portion and function of layer
7 is called the “interior-natural” layer (7i).

Prior to the glorification process human beings possessed
the ability of constructing external-natural neos (layer 7Ce), but after it,
humans possessed the ability of constructing interior-natural neos. What is the
difference?

When we read Sacred Scripture in layer 7Ce consciousness,
we are not capable of understanding higher order correspondences that are within
Sacred Scripture. We are unable to take off the 7th covering in which
the Divine Neo is wrapped or covered, as discussed above. For instance, when we
read the Swedenborg Reports in their literal sense, we are thinking and
comprehending natural-rational meanings of the Divine Neo (layer 7Ce). For
example, we do not comprehend the formula “spiritual world of the afterlife in
eternity = mental world in which we are in now.” People have the image that they
are here now, on earth, and that when they die, they “pass on” to the other
side. They see heaven and hell as the future of their lives, and not the
present. But when we think from layer 7Ci ideas, we can comprehend that we are
born into eternity and that we cannot exit it or enter it as we are already
there. Death is therefore not a “passing on” but a “waking up.”

In layer 7Ce (external-natural-rational) we think of God as
the Being we encounter after death, while in layer 7Ci
(interior-natural-rational) we think of God as the Divine Neo at the center of
all our neos. In the external-natural-rational layer (7Ce) we are persuaded that
our salvation depends on understanding the spiritual truths of Sacred Scripture,
but in the interior-natural layer (7Ci) we realize that salvation depends on the
quality of our love, regardless of our knowledge of spiritual truth. In layer 8C
we think that our salvation depends on being “forgiven by God” for our sins, or
hellish traits and enjoyments. We then think that this forgiveness is given when
we are repentant and acknowledge to God that our nature is evil and hellish. In
layer 9C we think that we gain salvation by performing the proper rituals of
one’s religion.

But in layer 7Ci we see that religion and salvation are two
separate things. We are saved not by proper rituals (layer 9, not by our
repentance (layer 8), not by our understanding of truth (layer 7Ce), but by
loving the good (layer 7Ci).

The Divine Neo in the Spiritual Sun is the Divine Marriage
between Divine Love or Good, and Divine Wisdom or Truth. When the Divine Neo
exits the Spiritual Sun and enters the mental world of eternity, the Divine
Marriage appears to dissolve. Divine Good in the form of spiritual heat enters
the affective organ at the highest level (layer 4A), while Divine Truth in the
form of spiritual light enters the cognitive organ at its highest functioning
point (layer 4C), which does its thinking with celestial-rational
correspondences of Divine Truth found in Layer 4 Sacred Scripture.

The Divine Neo at the center, or inmost structure, of the
affective and cognitive organs, is undivided in Itself, but when it is covered
over with layer 4 consciousness, the Divine Neo appears as split into two kinds
of things – affective heat and cognitive light. We feel the heat, love, and good
from the Divine Neo in our affective system of functioning. We see the light,
understand truth, and think according to wisdom and rationality from the Divine
Neo in our cognitive system of functioning. Now the cognitive neos (within which
is spiritual light), and the affective neos (within which is spiritual heat)
long to get back together again. When they do, it is called the spiritual
marriage. The conjunction of good in our affective with truth in our cognitive
is the process of regeneration.

Good and truth come into us divided, but when we are
regenerated, they are conjoined in us.

Consider some examples from our daily life. We live in a
society that has both heavenly and hellish features. The heavenly features
include people’s striving to improve their life and environment. This deep
seated motivation for improvement gives us the many sub-loves that energize us
into acquiring a variety of useful skills and pro-social attitudes that build
society and maintain its institutions, including all the professions and trades.
The hellish features include people’s striving to improve their own life at the
expense of others. The Swedenborg Reports identify the ruling love among all of
our hellish traits and motivations. It is the love of doing everything for the
sake of self alone. This purely selfish love hates the idea that we shouldn’t do
things merely for our own benefit or comfort.

Before we are regenerated in our inherited character, we
hate to be good, and we hate the good. We don’t like to do things for others. We
feel no reward, no excitement of living until we see how something is going to
benefit us. Just to be useful to society for the sake of being useful, or for
the sake of altruism, or for the sake of community, or God, is to our
unregenerate consciousness a heavy burden. We rather not have it. We would much
prefer to do everything for our own comfort and gain. And when we will allow
that some things we do should be for the sake of others, nevertheless we don’t
like it, and we try to keep it at a minimum. Our joy of living depends on
everything happening for us, for our comfort, pleasure, interest.

God makes sure that our conscience tells us when we are
being selfish, unfair, unjust, unloving. God also makes sure that every society
possesses Sacred Scripture, which is the source of the spreading knowledge in
society about God and regeneration. God allows people to resist and reject
regeneration, conscience, and Sacred Scripture. This freedom is necessary for
regeneration, which proceeds by temptations in events that God manages to bring
to each person. Resisting temptations while being in freedom to choose, seals
our spiritual fate to the ruling love of hell, with which we are born as a
mental inheritance from our biological parents.

In order to be able to resist temptations we must conjoin
in our mind the truth we know (C) with the good we feel (A). For instance, we
may know the truth from Sacred Scripture that we should be considerate of others
and look out for their comfort as much as we look out for our self. We enjoy
watching TV or listening to loud music, or partying with friends in our
apartment, or riding a motor cycle that makes noise, or using a car that smokes
pollution because we have postponed a needed repair out of negligence or bad
planning. These are common things we do every day, and they all fall into the
hellish category because they are selfish. What is happening to us as we do
these hellish things?

Even though we know the truth that these are selfish or
hellish things we do, yet we continue to do them. The truth we know (C) is not
married to the good of feeling compassion for others (A), feeling the desire to
improve the life of others around us (A). We know what to do to be good (C), but
we don’t have the motivation (A) to do it. The heavenly love (A) is not married
to the heavenly truth (C) in our mind. We must unite these two in order to
become good. This involves resisting the temptation to continue just being
selfish, and to give up that way of feeling about others. This is the process of
regeneration.

One function of neologisms is to provide scientists and trainees with new words
and phrases that denote new ideas and descriptions of phenomena or
relationships. I don’t know how many neologisms scientists produce in one
decade, or in one person’s career, or how one field differs from another. When I
inspect my own writings in science for the past half century I obtain thousands
of neologisms, of which
the neochart only presents a modest sample. This leads me
to suppose that the majority of scientists create neologisms. No doubt there is
a normal distribution to these, with one in ten scientists producing thousands
of them in a career of several decades. This implies that neologisms have a
normal function in the progressive expansion of the ideas and concepts in a
field. A scientific field progresses on the backs of neologisms.

A second function of neologisms is to organize the amassing literature in a
field and its exploration through search engines. If you search the Web or
electronic databases in libraries using a neologism chart such as the present
one, you obtain a smaller collection of results that provides information on a
slice of the topic in a field, and how the topic crosses over to related fields.
It provides a more restricted view of the infosphere surrounding that concept or
idea. It shows more hidden connectivity between topics than what we get from the
surface view of a regular search. Perhaps in the future there will be
specialized searches allowing you to search on neologisms only.

A third function of neologisms is personal since people’s lifetime neologisms
chart constitutes an autobiographical record of their intellectual production
and inventiveness. The
neochart is arranged on a time line that allows researchers
to investigate the history of ideas in science. The developmental phases of a
new concept can be charted. The rate and pattern of diffusion of neologisms
within a field and across science, and across time, can be monitored and
correlated with developments in culture, society, business, etc.

A
fourth function of neologisms is the
tracings of the evolution of a community
or sub-area of the infosphere. Neologisms are instances of
community cataloguing practices (CCPs). These are the conventions and
agreements in a group or institution that
constitute their ritual interactions, codified procedures, and
standardized norms and expectations. They include what’s worth
noticing or ignoring, what events or observations are worth reporting, what
constitutes merit, who has more authority, and what are the ranges
of acceptance and normalcy vs. what is
deviant or unusual. These socialized
mental practices have a unique
subjective lifewithin the experience
and consciousness of each member or individual. I refer to these
uniquenesses as
standardized imaginings (a neologism that I coined in 1975).

All
individuals experience the CCPs in their mental operations, but attribute them
to self.

This
systematic misattribution process has
deep consequences that reverberate through
many regions of the self, causing much anxiety, pain, depression,
preoccupation, and manic swings. An example is the
myth of inadequacy -- a neologism that Diane and I
neologued in 1975, but it did not appear in publication until 2003
in one of her articles. These negative self-beliefs are rooted in the
misattribution of standardized imaginings,
from socialized practices to
self-practices. There are many areas of such learned helplessness. For
instance, we are socialized to feel inadequate in the area of health care, and
we evolve various dramatic relationships in our mind with doctors, drugs,
hospitals, insurance. We constantly talk about this to ourselves, playing out
the drama of the inadequacy myth in relation to health issues, concerns, and
needs.

It works in
a similar way with positive scenarios that we play out in our strivings,
ambitions, hopes, plans, day dreams, and even night dreams. Individuals in a
society, community, or group are socialized into
mental practices that include:

I.
What to notice in the environment, on a screen or page – and what to ignore or
overlook

II.
What to make of something, what sense we are to make of it, what interpretation
are we to construct

III.
How to evaluate it, what are appropriate emotions we can have with it, what
falls outside the range of
acceptability

IV.
Whether to do something about it, whether to act on it, whether to optimize it

V.
How to engage it, what options are available, how to carry it out to the goal

VI.
How to execute it, to perform it, to do what it takes to achieve it

In the
mental practices list above, the standardized operations in I and VI are
performed as sensorimotor procedures (S), the operations in II and V are
constructed as cognitive procedures (C), and the operations in IV and V are
enacted affective procedures (A).

Self-witnessing (a 1971 neologism) is the construction and enactment of
systematic procedures for self-monitoring one’s mental practices on the daily
round of activities. When self-witnessing is acquired and practiced as a habit,
it provides a constant source of neologisms about the mental world. We can also
call them spiritual neologisms since
spiritual refers to our conscious life in the
mental
world of eternity after undergoing the
mental resuscitation
process, which takes about 30 hours from the moment of physical death or
multiple organ failure. The collection of mental neologisms in a community is a
more accurate and realistic description of its actual life. The community
cataloguing practices of a group, charted by means of ethnographically produced
neologistic databases, is a spiritual map of the community’s connectivity with
the Grand Human and the Grand Monster in the mental world of eternity. It is a
real indication of the quality of life in a civilization, and its moral and
rational level of evolution. Hence neologisms can not only tell us about the
actuality of the present, but they can also give us new directions to consider
and plan for, new hopes and endeavors, and ultimately, a closer presence of
heaven, thus to
God the Divine Human.

Another use for neologisms is exemplified by an email I
received this morning from a friend-writer on whose Web site I was commenting.
For fun, I included ten neologisms that I identified on his brief document in
which he discusses one of the Ten Commandments as it applies to marriage. He
wrote back: “Thanks, Leon. It's neat to read those neologisms. This line is the
most important to me: Expectations like
these lead to power struggles. It's the core concept in what we are trying
to elucidate in this commandment.” My friend’s response leads me to think that
writers will benefit from keeping track of their neologisms. There may be
several specific uses that research will need to disentangle and identify
precisely. For instance, in this case with my friend-writer, the neologisms
helped him see more specifically the central focus and purpose of this segment
of his workshop for couples. Another use might be to search who else has said
something about a particular neologism you have constructed, when the results
for the search are not zero or one (your own document). The fact that others
have in dependently constructed the same neologism is a momentous and historical
event in the autobiographical record of humanity’s intellectual life and
development.

A neochart is an index of one’s intellectual autobiography.
Global alphabetized neocharts may provide dates and a reference to an article
where a particular neo is used. One may provide additional information such as
occurrences of a neo in the work of others, information about the adoptions and
spread of a neo, and a glossary that defines each neologism in the chart. There
may also be related information and references. Also, research data may be
provided such as word and word combination frequency distribution tables, how
people evaluate a particular neo in terms of usability, attractiveness,
information value, and so on. Also, comparisons may be offered between
sub-categories of a neochart, and between neocharts of different people, epochs,
type of publication, genre of literature, characteristic of the author, social
conditions, and so on. The collection of neocharts in a community constitutes an
intellectual record and history of that community.

Every time a neologism is constructed by an individual,
humanity’s intellectual evolution expands one phase further towards its greater
perfection. We know from the Swedenborg
Reports that there is only one mental world of the human race, and therefore
every individual’s mental world overlaps with this human mental world. They are
the same. Hence whatever happens in one person’s mind has consequences for every
human being. The entire race’s mental activity of sensations, thoughts, and
feelings coalesce into a human shape called the
Grand Human and the Grand
Monster. All heavenly neologisms
coalesce into a form that replicates a human anatomy chart in every known
detail. Swedenborg interviewed people who were living their afterlife in various
regions of the Neologistic Grand Human
in the mental world of eternity. Spiritual
geography maps and mental anatomy
charts, drawn from the Swedenborg Reports, show that the neologisms being
created in say, the region of the skin and membranes, contain a cultural content
distinctly different from the neologisms being created in say, the region of the
heart, or lungs. Every feature of spiritual geography in the spiritual world of
the afterlife, coincides and corresponds with some particular feature of mental
anatomy in the mental world of eternity. These two neologisms are just different
expressions for the same world, since the spiritual world of the afterlife and
immortality is the same as the mental world of eternity into which we are born,
and in which we awaken in consciousness following our resuscitation process,
which takes about 30 hours following death.

Today I said to Diane, “You just had a
neologistic insight!” after I heard her inspiring analysis of a news
event about the ongoing presidential elections. Later I reflected on the
expression “neologistic insight” that I heard myself spontaneously speak out
loud in reaction to my wife’s analytical comment. When would we designate an
insight as neologistic? After some reflection I conclude that every insight is a
neologism. What is an insight? It is the process of receiving a new rational
perception. It is the ‘inner eye’ that has insights, while the outer eye only
sees appearances. Insights are visions of the inner, and what is inner is called
“cause” while what is outer is called “effect.” So when you have an insight you
are ‘seeing’ something new, and the content of the insight is about causes in
relation to the effects, about which one has the insight. In this case Diane
received a rational perception of the cause of the political event in the
elections – why someone prominent was saying and behaving in a certain way.

We produce neos by means of our ability to rationally
understand what we perceive and observe around us. Our motivation for
searching for this understanding is the love we have for making sense.

Affective love for making sense
à cognitive procedures of
sense-making
à
neo production by sensorimotor operations

Neos are sensorimotor performances that are the outward
representations of perceiving meaning and constructing explanations. The
meanings we perceive and become conscious of are those that are selected by our
love. According to the Swedenborg Reports, such as is our love, such is our
understanding, and consequently, such is our neo production.

In the context of social interactions and communicative
exchanges, neos are speech acts we produce that are expressions or images of our
inner loves. We speak according to our motives and intentions, which come from
love. When we are free, we will to think and to do that which we love. Speaking or
writing a neo is an invitation to others to travel to the same mental platform
where they too can have the perception of that neo. This is called sharing
meaning. All human beings have an inborn love for neo production and neo
reception. Sharing neos in communicative transactions affords mutual
satisfaction as it involves alternating turns of neo production and neo
reception. The neo that one person loves to produce is enjoyed by another person
when it is received. Conversational neos constitute a rich and rewarding
motivational resource, which explains why talking is the most common and enjoyed
human activity, both here, and in the afterlife.

Neo construction in conversation has an anatomical
dimension and relevance.

In layer 9-consciousness (corporeal mind), our neo-construction is
sensorimotor and concrete in focus and significance.

In layer 8-consciousness (materialistic mind), our neo-construction is
cognitive and abstract in focus and meaning.

In layer 7-consciousness (rational mind), our neo-construction is affective
and spiritual in focus and meaning.

Let us contrast layer 7-neos with layer 8-neos. Rational
neo construction is above materialistic neo construction in the same way that
rational-spiritual ideas (layer 7C) are above abstract-materialistic ideas
(layer 8C). Layer 7 thinking produces dualist neos, while layer 8 thinking
produces monist neos. Scientific abstract reasoning is thoroughly materialistic
and steeped in the negative bias in science. All layer 8 scientific thinking is
reductionistic, preferring and insisting on reducing the two worlds to one. In
non-theistic psychology the mental world is reduced to a thinner version of the
physical brain.

A “thinner version” of the mental world refers to the idea
that the mind is an “emergent phenomenon” of the physical brain. This is an
abstract-materialistic neo. To be “emergent” “of the physical brain” means that
what emerges is also physical. It is believed within this framework of thinking
(layer 8C) that the emergent “phenomenon” – namely the mind or the mental world
of experience, is rooted in the physical world and cannot be other than what
belongs to the physical world of time and place. Of course this physical world
includes gradations of “thinness” as in the following illustrative sequence:

1.solid matter

2.liquids

3.gases

4.energy

5.gravity

6.light

7.space or ether

8.propensities

9.life or intelligence

10.spirit or consciousness

11.time-space

12.infinity, God, Universe, Fate, etc.

These 12 phases of thinness of the physical world are
contained within the single dimension of materialistic monism. People who add
God to this list also like to add Universe or Fate, and the like. Note that
anything added to this list as its extension is going to be materialistic,
regardless of the degree of abstraction one can construct through intelligent
thinking routines. Hence there are people who think of God in materialistic and
corporeal terms (layer 8 and 9) as in “spirits” or “ghosts” etc., that can be
seen or interacted with because they are materialistic, even though thinner in
material than their former physical bodies. Some resuscitation neos I have seen
in various articles on the Web indicate the belief that the afterlife is in the
physical world, at some future date from now. The idea of physicalistic spirits
(layer 9C) and materialistic afterlife (layer 8C), consequently the reasoning
that supports it, gives its meaning to such commonly discussed topics as
consciousness, life, God, eternity, heaven, and hell. These are discussed and
defined materialistically in abstract terms such as capitalizing the word
Universe and using it as the definition of God or highest power that exists.
Another materialistic abstraction is the meaning given to “eternity” as some
future time on earth.

The rational neos in layer 7C are of two kinds, external (7Ce)
and interior (7Ci). External-rational neos constructed in layer 7Ce are tributes
to the genius and ingenuity of great inventions that advance human civilization
and fill society with science, engineering, art, management. These
rational-materialistic neos (layer 7Ce) are discussed in the Swedenborg Reports
under topic of “consulting one’s self-intelligence” when considering the
rational issue of the existence of God and the spiritual world outside time and
space. This rational-materialistic neos (layer 7Ce) are then contrasted with
rational-spiritual neos (layer 7Ci) about which we read in Sacred Scripture. For
instance, the idea that God is “not of this world” which leads to the
interior-natural idea (layer 7Ci) of dualism – two worlds. The “dual
universe created by God who is outside of creation” is a conscious idea
belonging to the highest level of neo construction in the natural mind (layer
7Ci). All layer 7Ci-neos are interior-natural correspondences of higher layer
neos constructed in the spiritual mind (layers 6, 5, 4), which in turn are
correspondences of the Divine Neos continuously streaming out of the Spiritual
Sun and into the mental world of eternity.

Sacred Scripture contains all the infinite Divine Neos to
endless eternity in one integrated series of rational neos. A version of Sacred
Scripture exists in all six
anatomical layers of the mental world of eternity,
that we call our mind. Each layer has its own meaning of dualism and God.

For instance, the Old Testament Sacred Scripture presents a
Corporeal Vision of God, manifesting Himself in natural disasters, miracles, and
physical rewards or physical punishments. There are almost no details given
about the afterlife, so little actually, that many believe that the afterlife is
going to be in the future on earth. This version of God presents Him somewhat
like a Benevolent Despot or Emperor who wants to be glorified by human beings
who are commanded to worship Him in certain specific ways, under the threat of
physical punishment and loss of country, home, and comforts. This version of God
presents Him as being partial to a specific people or ethnic group, considering
everyone else as having a secondary status in relation to Him and “His people”
or “Church.”

The New Testament Sacred Scripture presents an
Abstract-Materialistic Vision of God (layer 8C), manifesting Himself as a
physical, historical person, time-bound, place-bound, and identity bound. The
abstraction neos in the New Testament Sacred Scripture require complex ideas
that need to be figured out by rational reasoning. Then the materialistic
feature can recede in the background while the abstract feature comes to the
foreground of meaning or consciousness. For instance, the Divine Neo called
“Trinity” expressed as “Father-Son-Holy Spirit” is thought of by some as a
“mystery” which means that human rational reasoning cannot explain this “Divine
mystery” to our comprehension. Bo others, the Trinity Neo is understood as One
God who manifests Himself in three Aspects of Himself and His Creation. This neo
is produced in layer 7Ce when remaining consistent about the “God is One” Neo.

Another example from the New Testament Sacred Scripture
(layer 8C) that is contrastive with the Old Testament Sacred Scripture (layer
9C), is the meaning of sin. For our corporeal mind (9C) God defines sin as
sensorimotor trespassing or behavioral neglect of the rituals of animal
sacrifice, or of the commandments that governed one’s relations with neighbors,
such as lying, stealing, or coveting. This corporeal focus on behavioral
transgression as sin changes entirely in the New Testament abstracted focus on
mental transgression. You can’t see the mental transgressions of someone else,
hence it remains outside the scope of law and ritual in a group. There are no
civil laws against thought-crimes.

Laws are about expressing the thought-crimes in words or
deeds. Now, in the New Testament Sacred Scripture God is saying that mental
crimes are the real sins we need to do something about. The layer 8C-sins of the
New Testament Sacred Scripture are not identified or spoken of in the layer
9C-sins of the Old Testament Sacred Scripture. The idea that sin is mental
rather than physical requires a new level of abstraction in materialistic
thinking.

Human consciousness evolves according to the layer in which
we are understanding Sacred Scripture. Layer 9 understanding of Sacred Scripture
is corporeal and physical regardless of the version of Sacred Scripture. When we
look at the spiritual neos of the New Testament with the perspective we have in
layer 9 (corporeal mind), we see everything in it as corporeal neos. For
instance, when we read about the idea of sin as “mental crimes” it does not
impress us in layer 9 consciousness. When we read about the meaning of “burning
in hell” as being immersed in our own lusts and cravings, we are not as
impressed by this as when we read that hell is a prison where you get tortured
by devils. The idea that our own evil enjoyments lead us into debilitating
slavery to them requires a higher level of abstraction (8C) than we can
comprehend in layer 9C.

The Swedenborg Reports Sacred Scripture presents a fully
rational and scientific level of description and explanation of God, Trinity,
sin, heaven, hell, Sacred Scripture, Creation, death, afterlife, eternity,
marriage, Divine Providence, Holy Spirit, evolution of consciousness, and so on.
These spiritual concepts are explicated through scientific revelations. Nothing
is left out. It is now permitted (“Nunc Licet”) to learn scientific reasons
explaining how sin and hell are connected through our freedom of choice in our
daily lives. Through our understanding of the Swedenborg Reports God is opening
up a new mental layer in human ability to think and reason with spiritual truths
from Sacred Scripture. This layer is 7Ci. It is the interior-natural layer. With
this mental layer God has completed the creation of the mental world of
eternity. This layer could not be “opened” or operationalized in the human mind
until the 18th century when the Swedenborg Reports Sacred Scripture
were written, published, and disseminated by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772).

Since then layer 7Ci neos have been created and diffused in
all of humanity through the Grand Human societies in the mental world of
eternity. An integrated collection of these neos was produced by me in my
writings since 1981. These can be accessed through
The Master Neochart.
The content and reasoning that create layer 7Ci neos consist of the
correspondences in which all Sacred Scripture is written. The Swedenborg Reports
show that the afterlife is our mental world of loves, understandings, and
sensations. Such as our loves are such are also our understandings, and
consequently, such is the sensorimotor environment in our mental world.
Nightmares are events and experiences in our mental world. Loves are immortal
substances in our affective organ, and consequently our eternal life after death
is determined by these loves.

If these loves are heavenly loves such as the love of truth
or the love of being useful to others, then our external life becomes that of
the joys, beauty, and intelligence of heaven. But If these loves are hellish
loves such as the love of falsifying truth or the love of caring and benefitting
self alone, then our external life becomes that of the lusts, ugliness, and
insanities of hell. It is a free choice in the here and now of the mental world
of eternity, following resuscitation there. There is no punishment for past
sins. Love sticks to us forever. Our own loves takes us to our heavenly layers,
or to our hellish layers. Both layers exist in every mind since there is only
one mental world, and everyone is in it from birth to eternity.

The expression “cause-effect” is used in science and
elsewhere, in two distinct ways. In theistic psychology, as in the Swedenborg
Reports, all natural phenomena are effects, and all spiritual phenomena are
causes, that is ‘true’ causes. In non-theistic science causes and effects are
both natural phenomena, like virus and illness, or pressing gas pedal and car
speeding up. This is known in the literature as materialistic monism (sometimes
“positivism” and even “empiricism”). I call it the
negative bias in science. It denies that God has anything to do with
the cause-effect of phenomena. It prohibits scientists from giving explanation
for phenomena that include God. This is the reason that the Swedenborg Reports
have not been referred to in the voluminous non-theistic literature on
psychology that has accumulated in the past 200 years. This is astonishing to
me. The mental censorship, or if you prefer, mental standardization of thinking
and reasoning, is extremely effective in the preparation of scientists, and
throughout their professional careers.

I think this is bound to change in the near future because
the Swedenborg Reports are getting more attention from scientists. This new
evolution of science from non-theistic to theistic is bringing in the positive
bias mode of thinking and reasoning in science, as exemplified by the Swedenborg
Reports and the theistic psychology that is derived from its correspondential
sense. In this new dualist perspective of the universe it is clearly seen that
all natural phenomena are effects of spiritual causes. The two created worlds
are locked into each other by the laws of correspondences. The science of
spiritual phenomena is the study of causes, while the science of natural
phenomena is the study of effects from those causes. The two together finally
make a whole science of reality, a true science that is from the Divine.

Back then to consider an earlier sentence above: So when
you have an insight you are ‘seeing’ something new, and the content of the
insight is about causes in relation to the effects, about which one has the
insight. Neologistic insights are perceptions of causes. The history of science,
and literature generally, documents the intellectual inventiveness of people
across the ages and generations. Scientific empiricism, positivism, and
materialism are methodological issues rather than theoretical, explanatory, or
rational. Scientific theory is above empiricism. It must be so or else causes
cannot be brought into science. There are no causes in empiricism, no
theoretical explanations, only (at the most), operational definitions and
empirically constructed taxonomies. These are merely observations of the senses
through mechanical measurements or digital instruments. They are devoid of
theory, devoid of explanation, and therefore, devoid of understanding of the
causes that create those observed effects.

Scientific
neologistic insights are rational, theory-building constructions that
represent enlightened or spiritual perceptions about the world of causes. These
rational mental operations occur in the anatomical layer of the mind called
natural-rational (layer 7), while the operational definitions and empirical
taxonomies are materialistic or sensual operations in anatomical layer 8, which
is called the “external natural” mind. The thinking and reasoning operations in
this mental layer (8) are not rational but empirical, that is, sense-bound, or
sensual, dependent on sensory input from the physical world of time-space. These
thoughts are time-bound and place-bound, attached to physical objects and the
appearances of the earth environment. But the rational layer of the mind (layer
7) is not time-bound and space-bound in this way. It is rooted in the world of
causes since the rational is the cause of the empirical. The rational layer of
the mind (7) represents the spiritual world of eternity and is from that world
and operates in that world of causes. The empirical-materialistic layer (8)
represents the natural world of time-place-matter and operates in accordance
with the appearances of the sensory organs of the physical body and its
instrumental extensions.

Natural scientific neologisms are about effects, while
spiritual scientific neologisms are about causes.

So there must be a whole series of neologisms, and a
universal taxonomy or Atlas, in relation to mental anatomy:

Spiritual Sun (layer 1)

Celestial- rational neologisms (layer
4)

Spiritual-rational neologisms (layer
5)

Spiritual-natural neologisms (layer 6)

Interior-natural neologisms (layer 7i)

==============================

Natural-rational neologisms (layer 7e)

Natural-sensual neologisms (layer 8)

Natural-corporeal neologisms (layer 9)

It is tempting to fall in love with one’s own neologisms,
thinking, “Hey, look at my clever productions. These are my babies. I am their
inventor. I possess the genius to create them. Look how superior they are. I am
so creative. I deserve an award for each of these babies. Don’t you think? Etc.”
There is no ultimate payoff to this kind of self-meritoriousness or
self-aggrandizement. All neologisms are produced the same way, namely, from the
Spiritual Sun through the
layers of the mental world of eternity, and finally
into the layer of conscious thinking in your natural mind. Our interior-natural
mind (layer 7i) reacts to the end of the sequence originating in the Spiritual
Sun (layer 1):

Scientific neologisms are born in either layer 7e or layer
8. Notice the line separating 4, 5, 6, 7i and 7e, 8, 9. Layer 7e or “external
layer 7” is made of content from layers 8 and 9, and consequently all the
semantic and cultural content we are aware of at that layer has come to us from
the natural world of time and place. These enter our mind through the mental
correspondences to the operations of the sensory organs in the physical body
(layer 12). The content of our natural-rational mentality (layer 7e) comes to us
from reading and hearing, and reflecting abstractly on sensory observations. But
the content of our interior-natural layer (7i) is entirely from the mental
world, from the Spiritual Sun through layers 4, 5, 6. Layer 7i plays a critical
role in becoming regenerated and spiritual while we are in this life. This
anatomical layer was not operational prior to the Divine Incarnation two
thousand years ago (see
The Scientific
Meaning of Christmas).

You can see from this discussion that neologisms play a key
role in the evolution of human consciousness and the integration of the human
race into one synergy. The human race is being created endlessly along the model
of all organic growth familiar to us in biology. Life means growth, for the
cessation of growth is death or the absence of life, consequently being inert or
‘life-less’. Endless progression of growth is a necessary condition for
permanent human happiness. The heavenly layers of the human mind cannot endure
unless there is ceaseless progression to greater perfection. God is infinitely
perfect so that our endless progression towards perfection is the way closer and
closer to God. The closer we get to God as an integrated Grand Human the more
perfected we each become in conjugial love and wisdom from Sacred Scripture.
Swedenborg interviewed angels of the highest heavenly layer in the Grand Human,
the societies in the region of the heart and the region of reproductive organs
(see
chart here). They were
quasi-omniscient, knowing everything about any topic they were thinking
about. Their ruling love was to love God by striving to receive God’s
Omniproprium as their own. They know that the moment they have a desire for
something of their own proprium, like self-intelligence or independence of God’s
Proprium, they lose all happiness and intelligence, thus falling back to their
former mental states before they entered the Grand Human.

I became tired of thinking “neologisms” and saying it so
many times in the course of the day. My wife Diane started protesting and at one
point called it my obsession. So instead of neologisms as started saying “neos.”
Ah, that felt good. It took so much less effort to say it and to think
it. I started keeping track of how many neos I discovered today, or yesterday,
and wondering how many neos I will come my way tomorrow. I started wondering how
many scientific neos (would you mind if I called that “scineos”?) have I
produced in half a century of dedicated and concentrated daily effort.

How would I know this? It’s too arduous a job to count them
all and keep track of what they are and when they were first published and
making a link to the article on the Web. But fear not. I am a social scientist
and well familiar with the methods of sampling, and their accuracy and value, if
done correctly, and if none of the major assumptions and conditions are
violated, knowingly or unknowingly. Still, that process may be more realistic
and practical. Observation 1: every one of my articles I have so far analyzed –
about 100 so far, contained far more scineos than I could process. So I would
quit after getting about 50 neos from that article, and move on to another one.
I hypothesize that an average length article of mine is about
200 pages (range: 7 to 700). I know that sounds like a lot, but writing is what I do every day for hours. The
average page contains about 40 scineos, so that the average article of mine
contains (200 x 40), which is 8,000 scineos per article. In my fifty years of
writing scientific articles I have published about 250 average articles, which
is (250 x 8,000) or 2 million scineos for 50 years of writing by one scientist.
There might be about 200,000 scientists in the US who write heavily, so
the annual scineos production for the US
science infosphere is (200,000 X 2 million) divided by 50 (years), which
comes to 8 billion scineos.

There, that feels better. Now I have a number to think
about and savor and analyze. Eight billion scineos per year in the US alone.
Well, this number is no doubt pretty small compared to the annual production of
non-scientific neologisms in the totality of the infosphere, which may run into
the trillions per day. And this number is no doubt miniscule compared to the
total daily production of mental neologisms for the entire human race now on
earth, and this in turn miniscule compared to the universal human race past and
present. All this give us some indication of the inventiveness of human beings.
We cannot be happy unless we are free to produce neos in all departments of life
and zones of interest. The production of neos is a basic human right.
Anti-humanity dictators and political bullies are afraid of this freedom and
they try to suppress the production of neologisms in the country. They try to
exercise thought control so that people’s thinking may remain neoless, impoverished
and imprisoned in formulaic expressions advanced by the dominant political forces.

Teaching children about all the neos they produce helps
them to prepare the mental ground for the open up the human rational mind, and
preparing it for its adult maturation. Meta-neo talk is the register of
perception in
self-witnessing. In other words, when we practice monitoring our thoughts
and feelings (self-witnessing) we need to find an observation perch, or climb up
to higher ground, in order to gain perspective on the mental scene or topic
focus. This new higher ground of self-witnessing is mental anatomical
layer 7Ce,
discussed throughout this article. Layer 7 is called the rational mind
(C=cognitive organ), and has an external component (e) which is based in
materialistic and abstracted thinking that we do in layer 6C, anatomically just
below. From conscious awareness in layer 7C we can observe the operations going
on in our layer 6C, like from mental balcony or first floor window. We can see
our thoughts with our rational mind. You have done this whenever you corrected
yourself about thinking something. You realize that that’s wrong or incorrect,
and you change your thinking as a result. Instead of going, you might decide to
stay. Instead of getting mad at your boss, you decide to keep quiet about it.
Etc. You are on your rational self-witnessing perch whenever you talk to
yourself in a reasoned manner, for instance planning an encounter with someone,
or judging an action as to whether it is good or bad, fair or unfair.

We operate our daily round from mental layer 8C, which is
called the external natural layer, the materialistic self. Social and ecological
adaption and survival require that we be practical in our thinking. Our moving
around in physical space with a physical body that we must protect, requires our
external natural mind to be materialistic. Layer 8C controls layer 9C below it,
which gets to control the physical body (layer
12), for as long as it lasts. So there is a chain of downward anatomical
mental command structure in place. At the top sits our external rational
thinking (7Ce). This is the part that needs to be instructed in childhood and
prepared for young adulthood when we fully become conscious in layer 7Ce. We
know what we are thinking and think what we believe, doing so from our own
reasoning as an independent human being. This mental state begins our adulthood.

Teaching children the mental architecture of neo production
on the daily round of living makes a lot of sense. Meta-neo literacy in
education should form part of the series of literacy skills we now take for
granted that they ought to be universally taught to children – math literacy,
reading literacy, writing literacy, information literacy, computer literacy,
science literacy, civics literacy, driving literacy, and spiritual literacy. Of
all these, neo-literacy and spiritual literacy are the slowest to be recognized
and developed. Spiritual literacy is the ability to
apply
correspondences to all Sacred Scripture and to derive theistic psychology
from it. This spiritual literacy operates in our
mental
anatomy layer 7Ci. This is the interior rational layer in the natural mind
(“i” is for interior). The interior-rational portion of the natural mind is our
highest level of conscious thinking that we are capable of in this world prior
to our resuscitation in the spiritual mind. Layer 7Ci thinking and consciousness
is purely rational from the world of rationality itself, which is the Grand
Human in the mental world of eternity into which we are born with a spiritual
body, and where we awaken upon the separation from the physical body through the
dying process. Our conscious understanding of rational meaning is pure in mental
anatomical layer 7Ci (the interior rational). This is because its knowledge and
concepts are sourced in layer 6, 5, and 4, which are the spiritual
layers in
which we operate after our
resuscitation.

Layer 7Ce (external materialistic thinking) does not fully
accept the dualism, two worlds, eternity,
Heaven and
Hell, God, Sacred
Scripture. Many people don’t think about these things, especially those who are
not fond of rational thinking as a permanent way of being. Many other people
accept these things on persuasive teachings or blind faith, following the notion
that spiritual mysteries cannot be penetrated by the human rational mind, hence
it’s useless to try. But this is a materialistic thinking and consciousness of
reality. It is based on the idea that what the physical senses bring us can be
the basis for figuring out reality. This monism in the external rational mind (7Ce)
restricts our humanity to the highest animal level on the planet.

Our true humanity begins with the pure rational thinking in
layer 7Ci which takes its information not from the appearances of the natural
world, but from the realities of the spiritual world of eternity accessible
through the correspondential meaning of all Sacred Scripture.
Spiritual
literacy is the stairway to heaven. Meta-neo instruction prepares the ground
for all of layer 7, external and internal, cognitive and affective, and
sensorimotor.

Affective neos are feelings and intentions attracted to our
consciousness by means of the offer for suitability for conjunction. This is the
called the spiritual marriage of the affective with the cognitive. Every
operation of our affective organ (“the will”) is experienced in consciousness as
a feeling and as an intention. It is the source of all motivation in daily life,
and in our immortal eternity. A feeling or an intention means a love. All
feelings are the result of loves. All intentions are the result of the
affections of love that long to be consummated by conjunction. Love is
consummated by conjoining, as in a marriage, with a suitable thought or idea or
plan or principle. To put it in a way that children might think of it, we make a
wish and it comes true. The wish is a love conjoined to an idea, which is the
hope that might come to pass even if it is only wish. It is in this spiritual
union between love and hop that the child now lives and feels enthusiasm and
energy and motivation to do this or that, which might be merely to wait in
patience.

The spiritual union of the affective with the cognitive can
be encouraged in affective education. Consider: “What do I need to think of, in
order to feel better?” This is the principle that one can feel better by
thinking different thoughts. Conversely, if one thinks of critical or negative
or cruel thoughts in the cognitive operations, the only conjunction that takes
place is with scary feelings, destructive loves, evil intentions, hateful
wishes. This union is called the infernal marriage or concubinage.

It is clear then that thoughts attract feelings and moods
that correspond to the thoughts and are compatible with them. The instruction of
affective neos involves learning the details of the heavenly and hellish
marriage in our mind, and in the mind of every human being. This is what it
means to be a human being. This is how human beings function as organic units of
eternity and substance.

Affective neo education is not only by verbal neologisms
involving thoughts and reasoning. It is also involves the sensorimotor domain.
All human senses can be used to perform expressions of harmony, rhythm, and
pattern, and each of these sensorimotor neos attract an affective partner. The
love is consummated when the physical expression is an offspring, as it were, of
the spiritual marriage between love and understanding, between longing and
fulfilling performance or act.

In this way morality and civics become the practice ground
and avenue for the affective loves, intentions, and satisfactions from
consummation. In other words, to feel the intensity and sincerity of patriotism
in our heart, we not only recite in our cognitive mind the meanings and symbols
of patriotism, but we also act out and perform the appropriate sensorimotor and
physical movements, gestures, and recitations. These outward acts are spiritual
offspring of the spiritual marriage between the affective and the cognitive
operations in our mind. The Swedenborg Reports indicate with emphasis that
“nothing is more important” in life than to know how the will and the
understanding conjoin. This is the key to reformation of character and
regeneration, for without these, we are drawn into the source of our selfish and
hurtful loves, which is the Grand Monster of hell eternity.

The goal of affective neo instruction is to enable
emotionally intelligent neo productions. Children will be able to feel the
motivation for being kind, compassionate, and civil. They will consummate their
love of showing kindnesses and acting peacefully. They will be empowered to
experience the satisfactions of being public spirited, altruistic, and orderly.
Emotionally unintelligent neos will gradually lose their value and
attractiveness.

/Neologistic records/, graphs, and /charts of a group or community/, /make
visible the topic focus/ of its people. It /is their very consciousness/ --
/their preoccupations, their interests, their values/, their desires.
Neolgistic records create a /spiritual geography/ of our /vertical
community/ depicting thought and meaning/, idea and truth. No doubt a “Human
Atlas of Neologisms” may eventually be derived from world-wide /neologistic
databases/, which can show the /mental unity of the human race/, and
possibly, the /directionality of its spiritual destiny/.

There are different ways of systematically parsing text for its
neologisms. Here I have followed the rule of parsing minimally, that is,
including the minimum number of words in an expression, as we go through the
paragraph cumulatively from beginning to end, and counting each neo only once
(even if used again). I have indicated the parsings above with a slash (/) where
a neo begins and ends. Note however that any of these neos may appear multiple
times in an article or adjacent paragraphs. For the article count they should be
counted only once. In My
Neochart I have counted a neo only once in my career regardless of how often
I have used it in various articles and at various times.

Using the minimal cumulative parsing technique on the
paragraph under analysis, we obtain 12 neos. The paragraph length is 82 words so
that the neo/word ratio is 82/12 or 7 (rounded off). A neo/word ratio of 7 in
scientific text indicates that it is fairly complex in conceptual structure,
which raises the cognitive load of “following the meaning” or sticking with the
topic focus of the writer. I have seen complaints by some authors in the
literature on neologisms that some of them are not necessary and merely increase
cognitive load on the reader for the mere sake of vanity of the writer. Of
course we want to avoid producing unnecessary neos in text whose purpose is to
communicate new scientific content and information. We also want to avoid using
an old expression for a new perception, since this would vitiate the writer’s
discovery and interfere with the diffusion of this previously unknown idea,
concept, focus, or perception. So we must reach a practical and reasonable
balance. Hopefully I will be seen as striving for that balance in my writings.

Now let us take another look at the parsing issue and
what’s involved in the implications. The first two neos in the paragraph when
taken together, express a more complex concept than the two separately:

(1) /Neologistic records/ (2) /charts of a group or community/

/Neologistic records, graphs, and charts of a group or community/

The second, longer
neo is the result of combining two sub-neos and including the in-between
words as part of the longer new neo.
Note the collection of separate sub-neos contained semantically within the
longer neo:

Neologistic records || Neologistic graphs || Neologistic charts

And then:

Neologistic records of a group || Neologistic graphs of a group ||
Neologistic charts of a group

And also:

Neologistic records of a community || Neologistic graphs of a community ||
Neologistic charts of a community

And finally:

Neologistic records, graphs, and charts of a group or community

This final neo
is the full idea or description that I intended to convey. It is not the same as
“Neologistic records of a community” even though this shorter neo contains
within itself all the sub-neos. “Records” contains graphs and charts, while
“community” contains group. I can see that some writers might prefer
“Neologistic records of a community” to “Neologistic records, graphs, and charts
of a group or community.” This depends on the specific intention the writer
wants to communicate, which depends on the audience, the social setting, and the
purpose of writing it. This is something that needs to be discussed further.

More research needs to be done to understand how we decide
whether our new construction is a
genuine neo or not. For instance, the expression “final neo” in the previous
paragraph shows a google occurrence
of 5, 500. But inspection of the documents listed indicates that none can be
found that match the meaning of “final neo” given here, namely, the last
neologism listed in as series of neologisms.
So it is clear that “final neo” is a
neo. But there are less clear cases as in my neo “spiritual psychology”
which has a yahoo occurrence of
300,000. Again, in so far that I can briefly go through hundreds of documents, I
have never been able to find any that relates to spiritual psychology based and
defined by the Swedenborg Reports. The expression “spiritual psychology” was not
in use back in 1984 among Swedenborg scholars and readers. So when I produced
the expression, it was a neo. Here is another example. I coined the expression “semantic
satiation” in 1958 and in 2008 it has a
google occurrence count of 2,000.
Only a small proportion of these documents reference my original work. Most of
the users may be unaware of where the neo came from. Neo-authentication research
may be able to disentangle these information diffusion procedures in science and
literature.

A more difficult situation presents itself when the
occurrences are few and seem to match the use I was making of it. For instance,
the expression “google occurrence” has a yahoo count of 31. They seem to be used
in the sense I used it when writing the above paragraph.
Do I put it on my neochart then? I
would say yes because I did not know the existence of this usage until I
searched for it, after I constructed it and reread it, noticing it there. This
answer may be practical for now, but I think that if
neocharting becomes a community
practice then we will need more reliable ways than introspection and memory. The
same paragraph also shows my neo “google occurrence count,” which still has a
zero occurrence in 2008. This is collateral evidence that “google occurrence”
and “google occurrence count” are produced as genuine neos.

Consider one of the neos in the next paragraph:
“intellectual, biographical, commercial, and spiritual uses of neos.” I entered
this entire expression in my neochart. It contains eight words, or six if you
count content words only. There are sub-neos in it like
/intellectual, biographical,
commercial/,
/biographical, commercial, and
spiritual/,
/spiritual uses of neos/,
/commercial, and spiritual uses of
neos/ and so on, all of which have
zero occurrence. But I wanted to preserve the entire expression as one complex
concept. The sequence /intellectual,
biographical, commercial, and spiritual/,
semantically represents a unit with four aspects that make neos useful in
revealing a person’s activity in a community. I have tried to maintain the
conceptual units in the entries in my neochart. This explains why many entries
are longer than the minimal sub-neos they may contain.

Consider the expression “scientific specifics.” It came to
just a few minutes ago as I was thinking about the general principle that such
as is the quality of love, such is the understanding (Swedenborg). I was then
thinking that we can comprehend the meaning of this general principle, but what
is needed is the knowledge of the specifics, the scientific specifics. I
remember searching my mind for a suitable expression, and “scientific specifics”
came into my awareness. From my perspective it is a neologism that I coined
since I do not know such an expression and don’t recall reading it anywhere. So
I googled it and its occurrence is 961. You would expect the occurrence to be
much higher, perhaps in the hundred thousand range, or more, given that
“scientific” has a google count of 228 million, and “specifics” occurs in 431
million documents on the Web. Yet “scientific specifics” occurs in less than one
thousand documents among the hundreds of billions.

The expression “scientific specifics” refers to the
specifics of “scientific explanations” which occurs in 222 million documents. So
why only one thousand for “scientific specifics”? At this point probably no one
knows the answer. But the answer is available to us in scientific revelations.
Further research on the correspondential sense of all Sacred Scripture will
bring us the knowledge for the scientific specifics of neo construction in the
human mind. The one thousand or so current occurrences for “scientific
specifics” may all be neo constructions, or some may be while others are
diffusions and borrowings in the way this process normally goes forth.

It is difficult to discuss neologisms without creating
meta-neos, which are neologisms about neologisms. Once you start discussing the
characteristics and properties of neologisms, you have to construct syntactic
variants such as the adjective “neologistic” and the adverb “neologistically”
(which I find has a yahoo occurrence of 500). This is not neo mania, nor neo
show off. Meta-neos are necessary communicative devices that aid the reader in
pin pointing the semantic shape and perceptual contours of the writer’s topic
focus to be communicated. This all assumes of course that the information is
useful to a reader. I believe it is, and I discuss the utility of neocharts and
neo-analysis in this document. All this will become more convincing to more
people as the intellectual, biographical, commercial, and spiritual uses of neos
become known through the work of future contributors to this topic.

This morning I got this email from
my son Rex who was
looking over my neochart for the first time:

cool.i was
thinking about how to write a program that automatically finds neologisms

in a document (by leveraging google).the problem is, a neologism has to be not just

unique, but also meaningful, which means that an automatic
parser that just parses all

possible phrases of adjacent words would come up with a lot
of false positives.

This technical linguistic issue deserves attention by
linguists. No doubt the Google people
have the resources to come up with a workable answer. Do they not see the
tremendous commercial opportunity in
neocharts? Perhaps it would help the
Yahoo people and the Microsoft
people, if I specified some of the practical and useful values of a
search engine for neocharts.

Companies,
institutions, organizations, agencies, and departments can
monitor their in-house neologistic
productivity in both quantity and quality. What on earth for? That kind of
reaction is part of our social
communicative practices regarding topics. When I talk about neocharts people
immediately treat it as non-serious topic. And no doubt throughout this article
many readers will wonder whether I speak tongue in cheek about ideas such as
neocharts, neocards, neo widgets, neocalendars,
neo biographies, annual neo
production, spiritual neos, Divine Neos, and so on. Let me assure those readers
that I am being serious about each one of the several hundred neos I introduce
in this article. The neo-inventiveness
and neo-ranking of individuals,
organizations, countries, books, email and texting messages, is a meaningful
index of the productivity potential of
the people and plans involved.

Plans that have a
high neo-occurrence value are more likely to succeed – that is my
hypothesis. I hope research will confirm it in the near future.
Company and agency neocharts are an
empirical description of the mental infosphere it manages as copyright
ownership. Research needs to show the differential functions of
affective neocharts, cognitive
neocharts, and sensorimotor neocharts. The
neochart infosphere relates to
mental anatomy and, accordingly, needs to be described as an ennead matrix of
nine zones of intersection.

Anatomical Layers of the
Natural Mind

NEO CONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES

SENSORIMOTOR
Neos

COGNITIVENeos

AFFECTIVE
Neos

7

Rational

7Si

rational
sensorimotor
neos

7Se

7Ci

rational
cognitive
neos

7Ce

7Ai

rational
affective
neos

7Ae

8

Materialistic

8Si

materialistic
sensorimotor
neos

8Se

8Ci

materialistic
cognitive
neos

8Ce

8Ai

materialistic
affective
neos

8Ae

9

Corporeal

9Si

corporeal
sensorimotor neos

9Se

9Ci

corporeal
cognitive
neos

9Ce

9Ai

corporeal
affective
neos

9Ae

This ennead matrix indicates the quality and level of neos.
The construction of corporeal neos occurs at the lowest level (9C) of cognitive
reasoning that is closely bound to particular or singular events, hence is
sensory bound, data limited, subject to illusory appearances of the senses.
Constructing materialistic neos or sensual neos (zone 8C) requires a more
abstract level of thinking that can see generals from particulars. Data are
merely used to objectify an abstract relation or perception. It is the relation
that is in focus and that matters. The relationships between elements of data or
observation are abstract neos that operate above and prior to concrete neos.
With level 7C thinking one can penetrate and perceive the causes of why generals
and their particulars occur together in phenomenal observation. This is the
rational level of scientific thinking. It sees for instance that we operate in a
dual universe: the physical and natural world in time-space, and the mental and
spiritual world in eternity. Level 7C neos are dualist neos sourced in the
correspondential sense of Divine Speech as Sacred Scripture. This is the
beginning of what is truly and purely human thinking, thus rational scientific
thinking informed by Sacred Scripture.

Level 7C neos fall in two categories, external (7Ce) and
interior (7Ci). These are two radically different types of rational operations,
one natural-rational, the other spiritual-rational. The external
natural-rational cognitive operations (zone 7Ce) are sourced in materialistic
neos (8C) while on the other hand, the interior spiritual-rational cognitive
operations (zone 7Ci) are sourced in Divine Neos coming through our spiritual
mental
layers (4, 5, 6). From the perspective of google-yahoo-microsoft people,
the corporeal and materialistic neos (9C, 8C) have the most commercial
significance at this point in time and historical development. Let us recall
that we are now in the stone age of technology in comparison to what will be
available to our great grand children. Eventually commercial use of
spiritual-rational neos (zone 7Ci) will usher in a new post-Web era that will
offer a heavenly Internet, which is an Internet that corresponds to the good and
truth of the spiritual-celestial zones of the human mind. That will be the
beginning of the true human neos whose higher order quality will include
collective quasi-omniscience. There will then exist nothing that is beyond human
knowledge, understanding, and control.

I can foresee in the distant future a synergistic
bio-technology that provides ways of usefully representing the operations of the
sensorimotor and cognitive organs. This would allow real time monitoring of neo
construction procedures. Bionic interfaces may have the capability of managing
these procedures, whenever the affective organ allows it. Thought-control and
thought-management could not occur against the free will of the individual’s
affective operations of love, purpose, and intention. We know from Sacred
Scripture that God manages all procedures, including neo construction procedures
in our cognitive organ. Our free will to choose in our own mind anything
according to our understanding, is a human right guaranteed by God and
maintained forever by God’s omnipotence. We know from this that human free will,
which is located in the affective organ operations, cannot be controlled.

Teaching people skills in the construction of affective
neologisms has its most significant effects in childhood when layer 8C is being
built up for full fledged operation. The teaching of heavenly love neos is
sorely needed everywhere you go. Hate neos abound in all our major socialization
networks – song lyrics, TV and DVDs, novels, the Internet. Our face-to-face
social networking procedures involve bullying, teasing, sarcasm, dispassionate
gawking at the pain and terror of others. At the top of our affective love
hierarchy sits a selfish despot whose name is Me and Only Me. The Swedenborg
Reports distinguish between heavenly and evil neos, as you might expect since
this is God’s principal, central, and essential information we need to have to
effect a spiritual personality makeover (called “regeneration”). On the job
training procedures need to deal with neo construction practices.

By inspecting the chart from bottom up (9, 8, 7) you are
looking at the ascending order of human consciousness prior to resuscitation
(about 30 hours after the dying process). As infants our consciousness of
reality and the world is spent in layer 9 of the mental world of eternity. This
is the layer closest to the physical body (layer 12) and its sensory-motor
productions. In childhood we spend our consciousness in layer 8 of the mental
world. Children are sense oriented but they perform abstraction procedures on
what they observe through the senses. Children are untrained engineers. What is
lacking is rationality, for without this there is no science, because no
rational explanation. This is acquired in adolescence when we spend our
consciousness in layer 7e. This is the external rational layer, closes to the
materialistic abstractions of layer 8. Our adolescent mind tends towards the
ideal which is perceived in the growing rational neos in one’s reflections. This
idealized rationality is external because it does not know about God and Sacred
Scripture except externally as teachings and readings.

Then our consciousness suddenly takes to an inversion. The
adolescent becomes a young adult. Not yet a mature adult, but an adult, and past
adolescence. This inversion is marked on the chart as layer 7i, the interior
rational layer. The reason it is called interior is that anatomically it is
closest to the spiritual mind (layers 6, 5, 4) which remains unconscious until
after resuscitation. The spiritual mind is unavailable to our consciousness
prior to resuscitation. In our daily awareness we can know about the spiritual
layers of our mind, but we cannot sense them, observe them, or even describe
them. All the information about our spiritual mind must therefore come from
Sacred Scripture where we have access to the full series of Divine Neos.

Now here is an amazing and frustrating phenomenon or
reality that I observed.

The meanings and relations we see, understand, perceive at
each layer of our mental anatomy are not transferable to a lower layer. In layer
7Ci (interior rational cognitive operations), we can perceive, observe, and
understand rational proof. This rational proof or demonstration is sourced in
the interior rational series of correspondences we can access in Sacred
Scripture. Theistic psychology is possible because of this availability in layer
7Ci. Now what happens when we describe the rational proof that is available to
our consciousness in layer 7Ci? We can see and perceive the meaning and the
proof in the description, and others can also see it when they are accessing
that layer in their mind. But when people look at this description of the
rational proof and meaning in their layer 8C, they see nothing of the proof and
the meaning. Efforts to make it comprehensible to them in that layer of thinking
is fruitless and frequently results in reactions of derision, denial, and even
hostility. One instance of this antipathy between rational proof (layer 7Ci) vs.
empirical proof (layer 8C), is the negative bias science that excludes God and
Sacred Scripture from science, vs. the positive bias science that includes God
and Sacred Scripture, as in theistic psychology and theistic science.

Mental layer 7Ci gives us access to the full series of neos
in Sacred Scripture. In a prior Section the following was presented.

Here is the entire series of
descending consciousness of Divine Truth in Sacred Scripture:

Layer 4: celestial-rational neologisms

Layer 5: spiritual-rational neologisms

Layer 6: spiritual-natural neologisms

Layer 7i: interior-natural neologisms

===========================

Layer 7e: external-rational neologisms

Layer 8: external-natural neologisms

Layer 9: corporeal-natural neologisms

Layer 7i is here designated as “interior-natural” while we
are using here the expression “interior rational.” These differences in name
reflect different features of the anatomical details involved in the mental
series. The highest consciousness that materialistic science can give us is
layer 7e thinking. Einstein presents a good example. Today (May 13, 2008) a news
story announces that one of Einstein’s letters is being sold at an auction in
London. In that letter Einstein declares that God and Sacred Scripture are
“childish” legends. Here you can see the absolute inability of a man who is
ranked among the most intelligent in the history of scientists, and especially
in modern science. When Einstein operates in level 7Ce, giving elegant
mathematical explications of relativity and time, he is restricted entirely to
facts and information that come from layer 8 and 9 in his mind. Every rational
idea or proof that he can provide is restricted to this external rational
operation. It is called “external” because it has no access to the interior, as
the interior rational does. “Interior” is also known as “spiritual” in the
Swedenborg Reports.

But the instant that Einstein would adopt the positive bias
science and say to himself that God and Sacred Scripture are possible, he enters
layer 7Ci thinking that sees rational proof in Sacred Scripture in endless
different ways. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote his science books in the
language and thinking of 7Ci, in contrast to Newton who wrote from layer 7Ce
thinking.

Neo production turns out to be the central goal of our
temporary life connected to earth, as well as that of our permanent afterlife of
immortality. I didn’t know this as a conscious principle until I started working
on this project this year (2008). The facts had been available to me for the
past twenty-seven years, ever since I’ve been pouring all over the 27 volumes of
the Swedenborg Reports (Mmm, 27/27 – interesting correlation to be
investigated). How do these facts lead to the conclusion that neo production is
our current and permanent “central goal” in living? Let us put them together in
a rational account.

Reality exists in two worlds: the spiritual world of mental
eternity, and the natural world of time-space. The world of mental eternity
originates from the Spiritual Sun, while the natural world originates in the
physical suns or star galaxies. The two realities are deterministically
connected to each other, event by event, point by point, from general functions
to particular individual qualities. This connection is called the Law of
Correspondences and has been revealed Swedenborg Reports for the first time in
the history of science. Every event or quality at all levels of possible detail,
that exists in the natural world at any time or place, is called an effect of
correspondence. And, every event or quality at all levels of possible detail
that exists in the mental world of eternity (or “spiritual world”), is called a
cause of correspondence.

For the first time in scientific history, the Swedenborg
Reports (last volume published in 1771) empirically demonstrate that the literal
sense of Sacred Scripture is also a natural effect produced by a spiritual
cause. All things in the physical world are produced by correspondences, hence
Divine Speech or Dictation must also appear in the physical world by means of
correspondences. This is the law that applies to anything that appears in
physical reality in the natural world. Swedenborg’s unique dual consciousness in
both worlds (from age 57 to 84), allowed him to run this simple but impressive
experiment, on a repeated and regular basis for 27 (or 29) years. In his natural
consciousness and physical body he was reading a certain verse in his familiar
Swedish or Latin Bible. Simultaneously, in his spiritual consciousness and
spiritual body he was reading that same verse, and observing the difference.
From this dual observation platform he was able to take copious daily notes
detailing the difference between the natural sense and the spiritual sense of
every verse and every word in the Old and New Testaments.

He was an expert at making indices and laying out text in
numbered paragraphs that are cross-referenced to each other. He produced 6
volumes of analyses just for one Book in the New Testament called The Apocalypse
or Book of Revelation. It took him 12 volumes to give the word by word analysis
of the first two Books of the Old Testament called Genesis and Exodus. Each word
of Divine Speech is produced by correspondence in a natural language. First is
the reality of the Divine Spiritual Neo produced by God’s Mind in the Divine
Mental World. This is called Divine Truth or Divine Speech, and also “the Word
of God.” Note that Divine Speech or Truth does not have a creation history. It
is eternal and permanent. You can’t point to anything and say this precedes
Divine Speech or Divine Truth. Everything of creation has a beginning, by
definition. You can point to God’s Mind, which is Divine Love and Truth, and
correctly say that it precedes creation and all things in it.

The Divine Affective Neo called Divine Love is the
uncreated origin or source that produces and propels the Spiritual Sun into
creation. Creation is the work of the Spiritual Sun. This living eternal entity
is Divine, and is God as He is Outside of Himself and in Creation.

The Spiritual Sun is the infinite changeless
God-as-He-Is-in-Himself, presented in a visible form outside of how
He-Is-in-Himself. This outside of how He-Is-in-Himself, is the beginning point
of created reality. Everything created is produced by this one and only, and
eternal living Spiritual Sun.

The Spiritual Sun is infinite but it appears as finite when
viewed visually. Swedenborg was able to see the Spiritual Sun whenever he was
conscious in mental layer 4 called the Third Heaven. Every person he met in that
layer assured him that they too can see it, and marvel at it. They are conscious
of the influx that comes from the Spiritual Sun from within their mental organs,
as well as from without their sensory organs of sight and touch. They feel the
spiritual heat entering into their affective organ, and they see the spiritual
light in their cognitive organ as new understanding, new meaning, or new
consciousness. Spiritual heat and light flowing out of the Spiritual Sun creates
a rational ether or mental space around itself.

The spiritual heat creates a mental sphere of love with its
affections and feelings, while the spiritual light creates a mental sphere of
truth with its thoughts and rational understandings. This is the second sphere
in creation, and is the mental zone of eternity that is closest to Divine Love
and Truth streaming out of the infinite Spiritual Sun. The third mental sphere
around the Spiritual Sun is the layer in mental eternity that produces the
individual unique souls of every human being.

With layer 4 of the mental world of eternity we reach the
first existence of human conscious awareness as an individual person. This is
the mental state he calls the Third Heaven (or highest of the three heavens). It
is the highest existence and reality for the human race. God’s infinite Love in
Himself desires to make other minds happy from His Mind. Divine Love Neos are
constructed out of such desire to share with others outside of self. God desires
to make human beings happy and joyful from birth to endless eternity, and wills
through His infinite Wisdom or Truth, to multiply and diversify endlessly these
varieties of joys and intelligences that can live in human consciousness. The
mental world of eternity is the construction zone where these endless joys and
understandings can come into the living reality of every created soul. This is
the plan that is revealed in eternal and universal Divine Speech as it is laid
down in the natural-rational correspondences of the Swedenborg Reports.

When I tried to apply the analysis of correspondences to
Sacred Scripture other than the Old and New Testaments, I discovered that the
content of all Sacred Scripture is united and forms the natural representative
of universal spiritual reality contained in Divine Speech. In other words,
Divine Speech or Divine Truth is a permanent activity of the Spiritual Sun.
Divine Speech flows out of the Spiritual Sun into the mental world of eternity
that it forms around itself for the organic reception of good and truth (or love
and wisdom). Spiritual heat is a living organic substance of God called Divine
Love. We need to think about love as a substance from the Spiritual Sun, and
spiritual light as a substance also of the Spiritual Sun.

These two living eternal uncreated Divine substances in God
flow out of God into creation through the Spiritual Sun, which appears there,
visible to human consciousness. This layer of human consciousness is called the
celestial-rational mind. Swedenborg inspected the Sacred Scripture Book that is
read by people who dwell in that mental layer in eternity. He described the kind
of thinking that takes place through celestial-rational correspondences of
Divine Speech. Every element of thinking exists in a married state to a specific
element of love. Every thought is produced by a love. The thought is a “consort”
to the love and together, they make a unique combination or existential
neologism. Every neo in human consciousness is produced by this marriage between
some love we have with some thought that it can go with. Thoughts are
constructed in the cognitive organ out of the substances of spiritual light.
Loves and their affections and feelings, are constructed in the affective organ
out of the substances of spiritual heat.

In this way the organic spiritual marriage of love and
understanding in every person, actualizes by correspondence the organic Divine
marriage in God, which is the unity into one between His Divine Love or Good and
His Divine Wisdom or Truth. This actualization of correspondences in the human
mind fulfills God’s Love and strivings in creation as He is Outside of Himself.
Note that since all things are produced by the substances of the Spiritual Sun,
all things contain these substances. There is no way of getting rid of the
center of something. You can see this logical principle operating with physical
objects. You can’t get rid of what makes its center, namely the space and
whirling particles that were detached from a sun in the initial phases of
planetary evolution. A piece of that original star is at the center of every
object on the planet. These connections are actually representatives or models
(or effects) produced by correspondences of Divine Speech or Truth as it
exteriorizes from the Spiritual Sun outward in a circle and across the various
mental layers of eternity.

There is only one physical space, so the space at the
center of each atom is the same space in which the galaxies are. These relations
are actually representatives (effects) produced by the Spiritual Sun as its heat
and light stream out across the various mental layers of the world of eternity.
The Spiritual Sun is at the center of each thing or quality that is produced in
the mental world eternity. The substances of spiritual heat (or Divine Love) and
spiritual light (or Divine Light) produce each mental state organically. First
they produce the three mental organs – affective organ (or the “will”),
cognitive organ (or the “understanding”), and sensorimotor organ (or “spiritual
body”). These three organs form a unitary system or mind, and this is reproduced
in six distinct but interacting layers.

Summary of the
Organic Human Mind or Mental World of Eternity

When our consciousness or understanding operates at
layer 4, we are thinking and
reasoning with celestial-rational
correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth.

When our consciousness or understanding operates at
layer 5, we are thinking and
reasoning with spiritual-rational
correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth.

When our consciousness or understanding operates at
layer 6, we are thinking and
reasoning with spiritual-natural
correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth.

When our consciousness or understanding operates at
layer 7i, we are thinking and
reasoning with interior-natural
(or exterior spiritual and celestial) correspondences or meanings of Divine
Speech or Truth (that is, according to rationality based on spiritual and
celestial meanings (layers 6, 5, 4) contained within Sacred Scripture).

When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer
7e, we are thinking and reasoning
with exterior-rational
correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth (that is, according to
rationality based on abstractions from sensuous appearances and meanings
contained within Sacred Scripture).

When our consciousness or understanding operates at
layer 8, we are thinking and
reasoning with exterior-natural
correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth (that is, according to
abstractions from sensuous appearances and meanings contained within Sacred
Scripture).

When our consciousness or understanding operates at
layer 9, we are thinking and
reasoning with corporeal-natural
correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth (that is, according to
mere sensuous appearances and meanings contained within Sacred Scripture).

These 6 organic mental layers reflect the geographic zones
of the mental world through which Swedenborg traveled. To reflect this
astonishing fact, I like to use this formula in theistic psychology:

spiritual geography = mental anatomy

In other words, the spiritual world of eternity and
afterlife is nothing else than the mental world we are familiar with already. We
are not conscious in layers 6, 5, 4 called the “spiritual mind” until after our
resuscitation. Swedenborg observed many people in the process of being
resuscitated (about 30 hours after death). In the initial mental states we are
still conscious in the natural mind (layers 9, 8, 7) as we gain full
consciousness in the spiritual mind. If the spiritual mind has not been opened
by regeneration, then there is an attempt to provide the opportunity for
character reformation to each individual. Swedenborg observed that each person
chooses according to the ruling love they have acquired prior to resuscitation.
If the ruling love is unregenerate, the spiritual layers cannot be
operationalized for their consciousness. That ruling love prevents it because
the spiritual mind is in the order of Divine Speech or “heaven”, while the
unregenerate ruling love is always in the opposite order called “hell.” The
ruling love selects a level of consciousness that is suitable to itself, and
shuts out all other levels of understanding and truth.

Swedenborg regularly for years spoke to people who live in
one of the numerous spiritual societies of hell, globally called The Grand
Monster in the mental world of eternity. He also spoke regularly to people who
live in one of the numerous spiritual societies of heaven, globally called The
Grand Human in the mental world of eternity. Since there is only one mental
world of eternity, every human being is in that one world. Individual mental
life is unique because each person’s organic soul and spirit (layer 2 and 3) is
created unique at birth. From birth onward to endless immortality, every
person’s mental organs receive the influx of Divine spiritual heat and light in
a unique way, engendering a unique consciousness, and consequently a unique
life, a unique relationship to God.

From all this you can see more rationally how it is that
neo- production is the central goal of existence and of the creation of the
universe. A neo (S) is born from the union between our love (A) and our
understanding (C).

Affective (A) operations conjoin with cognitive operations
(C) to produce a neo baby (S). The Neochart is an autobiographical record of
this marriage in the mind of an individual over the course of intellectual
development. Conjoint Neocharts form a record of the life of a conjoint self,
which is the united mind of a conjugial couple.

In the Swedenborg Reports God is revealing one of the most
fundamental of all philosophical puzzles, namely, the rational and complete
answer to the question: “What is the purpose of the universe and human life in
it?”

The beginning purpose and the end purpose of all creation
is
conjugial love.

Creation and the universe exist for the purpose of
fostering this love between a
husband and a wife.

All other purposes in the running of the universe are
subordinated to this one purpose.

Conjugial Love (CL) between a husband and wife (called “the
celestial marriage”) corresponds to the conjunction of Divine Love and Divine
Truth in God (called the "Divine Marriage"). In between these two is “the
spiritual marriage” which is the conjunction of our affective and cognitive
organs (“will and understanding). Regeneration brings about the spiritual
marriage within each of us. After resuscitation we exist in the celestial
marriage in some society of the Grand Human.

The spiritual marriage is something each of us must focus
on. It is brought about and managed by the
Divine
Psychologist (“Holy Spirit” or “the Lord” or “God”). Regardless of people’s
beliefs and religions it is the Divine Psychologist who manages this process in
the mind of every human being past, present, and future, from birth to endless
eternity. This is true of us here before resuscitation, it is true when we live
our existence in heavenly consciousness after resuscitation, and it is true when
we are in the
Grand Monster. God
manages every human being’s mental world and organic mental operations through
the laws of correspondences, which God reveals in the Swedenborg Reports.

Natural marriages on earth are designed by God to foster
the psychological growth of our inborn conjugial character.

God manages couples in natural marriages here on earth by
providing for them intermediate steps of deepening the relationship from
relatively external to internal and inmost.

The inmost phase in a natural marriage is practiced when we adapt our
behavior to fit the
unity model.

The intermediate phase in a natural marriage is practiced when we adapt our
behavior to fit the
equity model.

The beginning phase in a natural marriage is practiced when we adapt our
behavior to fit the
male dominance model.

The male dominance model is in layer 9 of the mental world of
eternity (natural-corporeal mind).

The equity model is in layer 8 of the mental world of eternity
(natural-materialistic mind).

The unity model is in layer 7 of the mental world of eternity
(natural-rational mind).

In the male dominance model of behaving in marriage (layer 9), the
couple practices sensorimotor intimacy without cognitive and
affective intimacy within it.

In the equity model of behaving in marriage (layer 8), the couple
practices sensorimotor intimacy within which is cognitive intimacy,
but without affective intimacy.

In the unity model of behaving in marriage (layer 7), the couple
practices sensorimotor intimacy, within which is cognitive intimacy, within
which is affective intimacy.

Husbands who commit themselves to the
unity model can
search the Swedenborg Reports for information on how to behave and how to think
within this model. I have done this for many years and have formulated a series
of mental and interactional procedures that I collectively call
The Doctrine of the Wife (DoW).

The principal love in the unity model is to maintain
intimacy at all three levels – sensorimotor, cognitive, affective. Events that
break mental intimacy need to be studied by the husband, understood, and avoided
on a daily and hourly basis. Here are such anti-unity events that I have
observed in my life and the lives of other couples, both real and in the media.
The list should be very familiar to all readers:

Husband disagrees with his wife (breaks trust she has
in him to protect her and cherish her)

She asks him to do something and he ignores her request
(creates stress in her life, breaks her peace)

She wants to keep talking about it, he refuses,
obfuscates, or goes away (makes her feel like she is alone, abandoned,
rejected)

She argues with him to stop seeing certain friends, but
he refuses, picks a fight each time (makes her feel discouraged, like she is
unloved and failing)

When he is in a certain mood he criticizes her, calls
her names, acts like he is mad (makes her feel beaten up, abandoned, used,
discouraged)

He tries to make her feel guilty for not acting like
she wants to have sex with him when he wants to (makes her feel like a
victim of sexual blackmail and date rape)

He talks about her behind her back in a critical or
disrespectful way to his mother, children, friends, or strangers (makes her
feel like dying when she finds out about it, something inside her goes cold
towards him)

He feels comfortable letting her be stuck with stress
and inconveniences in domestic tasks and situations, without really coming
to her rescue, giving her relief by doing things with her and for her, in
the way she wants things to be done (doing this for her makes her feel sexy
towards him and returns to her the freedom to be a feminine woman)

There are all sorts of
interactional neos and
transactional neos. These are
new ways of having an exchange, or a
different way of communicating or saying
something to someone who can detect the neomaly (combination of neo and
anomaly). Neomalies are anomalous
neologisms. This happens frequently with friends, roommates, spouses. When
people live together they evolve forms
of sensorimotor coordination which one can perceive in their
interactional rhythm, verbal and
nonverbal. When married partners
practice the
unity model procedures in their interactions, they are each
other’s best friends and evolve an
interdependent conjoint self.

A conjugial
conjoint self is constructed out of the
husband’s masculine intelligence and
the wife’s feminine intentions. The
mental anatomy of men and women are
in reciprocal form relative to each other. In a man’s mind the cognitive organ
is on the outside, closest to the sensorimotor organ and his physical body,
while in a woman’s mind the affective organ is on the outside, closest to the
sensorimotor organ and her physical body.

You can see from this diagram that the anatomical
conjunction of the minds of husband and wife takes three phases to complete. The
first phase (1) is the mutual
adjunction of their sensorimotor organs. I call it
adjunction because, as the Swedenborg Reports show, two like organs cannot
conjoin anatomically but can only be coordinated to each other in operation,
each remaining independent and single. Mental conjunction requires reciprocal
organic structures that are constructed to form a whole. This means that
individuals are born single and remain incomplete in mental anatomical growth
until each person can conjoin with its own reciprocal. Marriages that practice
the male dominance model involve sensorimotor and physical adjunction, but there
is no
cognitive and affective intimacy. In his own mind, the husband who
practices male dominance does not knows little about his wife’s cognitive life,
and knows even less about his wife’s affective life. Nor does he care to know.
The male dominance model of marriage never goes beyond sensorimotor and physical
intimacy.

Phase 2 begins when the husband gives up male dominance and
adopts the equity model of marriage. Now he feels obligated to consult his
wife’s thinking on many things about their domestic life. He even adopts a new
philosophical attitude about it, favoring in his mind and in his talk the
philosophy that “the sexes are equal” and that “women should be given the same
opportunities as men” etc.
Equity husbands negotiate and haggle about who does
what how much, and when things get rough and he feels he is expected to do too
much, he will rebel, throw a fit, fall silence, take a walk, go out, or worse,
make his wife feel jealous and insecure. The husband will self-servingly fall
back on the male prerogative model of society, giving him the ultimate word on
just about everything in their life together.Still, there are many husbands who see through this self-created
subterfuge and how dangerous and hurtful and unfair it is.

Phase 3 begins when the husband realizes that sensorimotor
adjunction and cognitive sharing and intimacy, are not enough. He knows that his
wedding vow was to take care of her ‘till death do us part’ but in his heart and
desire he feels differently. He longs for the hope that their union may be
forever, beyond death and into immortality. She is his soul mate. He knows it,
he feels it. Soul mates are forever. So now, under the impact of this
regenerative affective neologism he changes his mind, he remakes his vow to her,
this time saying ‘till endless eternity.’ Now he is entering the unity phase of
affective intimacy. He very soon realizes and feels that this is not going to be
an easy task.

Conjunction is a powerful anatomical process of change and
remaking, restructuring. The
reciprocal anatomical components in each of them
are covered up by much thick growth belonging to other loves, other than
conjugial, having to do with self interest, gender politics, family ties,
preferences and fears, sympathies and antipathies in everything cultural in
which they are mentally immersed – lifestyle habits, prejudices, weaknesses.
These differences or interactional dividers were there before in the earlier
phases, but they were so much easier to cover up, to lay aside and ‘agree to
disagree.’ But now in the unity phase (3) there is no hiding from each other.
Masculine neologistic productions clash with feminine ones. You can see the
nature of this clash of characters when you consider the anatomical diagram of
their mind.

His cognitive organ is right next to the sensorimotor and
the outside physical world. His affective organ is hidden deep behind the
recesses of his cognitive awareness. The
masculine intelligence looks outward
into the physical world and is occupied with it. His affective operations remain
deep seated and not very well known. He is quick to disagree, then quick to get
angry at her when she interferes with his way of thinking about something. He
expects her to submit, to agree, to be loyal to his way of seeing it and
justifying it.

He resists her when she reflects to him his feelings and
motivational intentions. He denies them. He is different than she imagines, he
says and thinks. What is she to do?

Her affective organ is right next to her sensorimotor
environment and physical body. She feels things by perception. She is not as
practiced as he is in justifying and explaining how things are with him. She
just knows it, because she perceives it. Her intention and love for conjoining
him to herself is so powerful that she burns hot with desire for affective
intimacy. She can only obtain this if he wants to have that with her. He must
reciprocate by conjoining himself to her. This is the unity dynamic: She strives
to conjoin herself to him, and he strives to conjoin himself to her. Her outward
feminine love conjoins itself to his outward masculine intelligence (phase 2).
Now when this is done, she waits. She must wait for him to conjoin his inner
masculine love (affective organ) with her inner feminine intelligence (cognitive
organ). The diagram shows this process with the lines conjoining the parts.

The deepest form of masculine intelligence exists in two
phases, unenlightened (mental layer 7Ce) and enlightened (layer 7Ci). The
difference in level of operation between the external rational layer (7Ce) of a
man’s cognitive organ (C) and his interior (i) rational layer (7Ci) is like that
between the physical and the spiritual. One is temporary and sourced in
appearances, the other is eternal and sourced in realities. To depend on
appearances (in layers 9, 8, 7e) for one’s survival is to ultimately fail to
adapt, and consequently it is to fail and to miss the desirable potential,
giving up the desired goal. But to depend on realities for survival is to adapt
successfully, attaining full potential, and enjoying the attainment of all one’s
cherished goals. Enlightenment is the mental state of reasoning from realities.
Unelightenment is to reason from appearances.

For example, to say that the “sun rises and sets” is to
speak according to the visual appearances of the sun’s progression across our
daily horizon in the sky. This is merely a communicative convention that makes
things more convenient for people. There are many such instances in our daily
round of activities and settings. But to construct a scientific explanation that
relies on this appearance is to destroy science as the study of reality. Science
does not base its theories and explanations on mere data and observations –
these are merely appearances, effects, correlations, accidents. Instead science
bases its explanations on abstractions away from the appearances in data
observations. Theory must go beyond the data, or else it is imaginary and
unreal. Such imaginary theory has no power to explain, nor power to predict or
control anything of importance.

What is added in theory that is not in the observational
appearances of the data?

The answer is that rationality is what theory is made of.
We construct a theory by putting rational ideas together into a pattern that
enlarges our understanding of something. The something is the observational data
or “phenomenon” (whose etymology denotes the appearance to the senses).
Anatomical layer 7Ce gives access to external rational theories which are above
mere abstractions (layer 8C) of sensory observations and instrumental
measurements (layer 9C). But layer 7Ci gives access to interior rational
theories sourced in the spiritual layers of mental eternity. These spiritual
layers are created by the layers of correspondences in Sacred Scripture --
spiritual-natural in layer 6C, spiritual-rational in layer 5C, and
celestial-rational in layer 4C. These levels of spiritual consciousness are
purely rational, uncontaminated by the appearances of the physical senses that
restricts our natural world consciousness to appearances (layers 9, 8, 7e).

The unenlightened masculine intelligence practices the male
dominance model of relating to women (layer 9) in phase 1, then in phase 2,
practices the equity model (layer 8 and 7e). In these two phases men relate to
women in terms of appearances (layer 9) and in terms of abstractions (layer 8).
But in phase 3 men relate to women in terms of realities. The unenlightened
masculine intelligence (layers 9, 8, 7e) is incompatible with feminine
intelligence because one is external (belonging to the physical world) while the
other is interior belonging to the mental world of eternity. Feminine
intelligence is shown on the diagram above as being located in the inmost or
highest region of the woman’s mind. Feminine intelligence is informed by
rational perceptions more than by external appearances. It is the reverse with
the unenlightened masculine intelligence, which is more informed by and reliant
on external appearances and their abstractions, rather than by understanding of
the causes of these appearances. All causes are in the mental world of eternity
(or “spiritual world”), and all phenomenal appearances in the physical world are
effects of mental causes. Hence it is that feminine intelligence, which is based
on rational perception, is higher than masculine intelligence that is not yet
enlightened, and consequently is based on appearances and their abstractions.

This is why it is necessary for a man to subordinate his
own masculine intelligence to his wife’s feminine intelligence regarding all
matters pertaining to their life together. The Swedenborg Reports divide the
things between a husband and wife in two broad categories, “forensic” and
“domestic.” In the literal sense “forensic” refers to the things a man does
outside the home to support and protect his family, like employment, politics,
commerce, science, community-building. But in the correspondential or spiritual
sense “forensic” refers to unenlightened masculine intelligence (9C, 8C, 7Ce).
In the literal sense “domestic” refers to what a woman does in the home to take
care of home management and parenting. But in the correspondential or spiritual
sense “domestic” refers to enlightened masculine intelligence (7Ci).

So in a real sense a man becomes spiritually enlightened
when subordinates his masculine intelligence to his wife’s feminine
intelligence. This is known in theistic psychology as the
Doctrine of the Wife for Husbands (DoW).

This subordination is purely voluntary. The woman has no
power to compel the man to listen to her. She can plead and beg and complain,
but that’s where it ends if he chooses to ignore her. This subordination is
sourced in pure heavenly freedom guaranteed by the
Divine
Psychologist who
manages this process in all its details and progressions. Neither does God
compel anyone. God’s omnipotence is exercised to insure that the man’s choice in
this matter will be purely his own choice in accordance with his own love and
motivation. For only that which he chooses from love in accordance with his
reason, does belong to him in eternity. Through this attitude of unity the man
becomes more and more enlightened. God has arranged matters this way from
creation by making masculine intelligence to be the reciprocal of feminine
intelligence so that the two can form a one, and thus a higher self, a conjoint
self.

When the two minds work as one they produce conjoint neos.
Heavenly life in eternity is constructed out of conjoint neos. Swedenborg
describes the heavenly surroundings of the couples who construct their mental
environment by means of conjoint neos.

It is a heaven of neos!

Everything there that is visible as an environment is like
a dream space filled with everything surprising that is happy, charming,
beautiful, involving, and rationally meaningful. Swedenborg saw dream houses and
palaces, new types of gardens and plant arrangements, new fruits that are
delightful and even instructive because of their representations in the Grand
Human, which is the mental world of eternity. Every wonderful and meaningful
object that appears in mental anatomy layer 4 is a representative of conjugial
love between a husband and wife united into a conjoint self. This dream like
reality in eternity is very real, unlike a dream or daydream we have here in our
natural consciousness, which only lasts a short while then ends, making us face
the concrete facts before us and surrounding us. But in the spiritual
consciousness we have after resuscitation in layers 6, 5, 4, the surrounding
sensorimotor neos are mental performances of our inner loves that use our
thoughts and imagination to give them meaning.

Our cognitive life of thinking is in the service of our
affective life of loves. Every love has a built power to consume itself. To be
consumed is the purpose of a love’s existence. A love is consummated when it
conjoins itself to a thought, as in a spiritual marriage, and producing
offspring of that affective-cognitive union, that are visible as sensorimotor
neologisms.

Prior to resuscitation, while we’re here conscious in our
natural mind (anatomical layers 9, 8, 7), there is a discrete barrier separating
our sensorimotor operations (9S) and our temporary physical body (layer 12).
This may be called the dualist barrier of existence. Humans are born into a
dualist creation, one in time and physical matter, the other in eternity and
mental substance. Our physical body contains physical organs and structures
patterned after the spiritual body, which is a mini-version of the Grand Human.
The spiritual body contains our mental organs: affective, cognitive, and
sensorimotor. These interact with each other in correspondence with the
in the exact way in which the three systems in the physical body interact
– circulatory/digestive, respiratory/oral, and nervous/skeletal. Every detailed
physiological, biochemical, and atomic operation of the three interdependent
physical systems is a particular effect caused by some affective love in the
spiritual body, in conjunction with some cognitive idea, and together through
the intermediary of the sensorimotor determinations, readinesses, and
instantiations.

The conscious portion of our natural mind has control over
the physical body’s voluntary movements. This control ratio is like the
difference between a child’s knowledge of using a cell phone and the team of
engineers and computer scientists that built it and keep its global system
running. We know only the most general things of what is actually going on when
we make our arm and fingers move to place food in our mouth. So the control of
the physical environment we have is like the control a child has over the United
Nations. But we know from the memory of our dreams that in a purely mental world
we have the power of a god, like the author of a novel has power over the
characters. Our ruling love makes everything happen in our sensorimotor dream
environment. We can see the powerful attraction of beauty and feel the intensity
of the pleasure, and when we are captured by an infernal love, we feel the
terror and see the ugliness and deformation.

After resuscitation, for a relatively brief process or
phase, we are as if still located in our natural mind and consciousness, and our
earth bound cultural memories, identity, and self-image. Things are not normal
or as before, we realize that. People appear and disappear, the surrounding
environment instantly and drastically changes, people we know are as if there,
along with strangers who somehow inexplicably yet seem familiar. Scenes come and
go as if in an intense dream or spiritual
holodeck. Who is the
programmer? It is the
Divine
Psychologist managing the individual’s entry point
into the final and eternal destination – somewhere in the Grand Human or in the
Grand Monster. The individual’s ruling love is given the opportunity by the
Divine Psychologist to make that choice.

There are two kinds of ruling loves in the mental world of
eternity. One is the chief love in the spiritual layers (6, 5, 4) called the
love of good and truth, and the other is the chief love in the natural
layers of
our mind (7, 8, 9)
that is nothing but the love of corrupted good and falsified truth. For
example, when we love to do something for the sake of ourselves alone, we hate
to do something for the sake of others as well as ourselves. The first is an
infernal love, the second is a heavenly love. Following our resuscitation and
while we are still conscious in our natural mind, the Divine Psychologist brings
us face to face with our principal loves, both heavenly and infernal. This is
done through a series of Divinely orchestrated happenings and meetings that
provide people with the experiences they need to become consciously aware of
their deep seated and often hidden principal loves.

In the Swedenborg Reports the Divine Psychologist declares
that “Love is man's willing, and derivatively is his thinking, and thereby his
acting." (AC 3938)

People's loves have activated them throughout their life in
the earthly environment and body, forming their character, over which they
superimposed a social personality that others could accept and live with. But
throughout this time the real character of the ruling love remains hidden –
unless the individual undergoes reformation by spiritual enlightenment, and
proceeds with regeneration of character. This cooperation process with the
Divine Psychologist allows the mental rebirth of a new heavenly ruling love that
will take the person to the Grand Human. And otherwise the person remains
attached to the infernal love of wanting only what is of gain to self, and
hating all heavenly loves because
these loves benefit others and not merely self.

Both heavenly and infernal loves are empowered by the
Divine Psychologist. Hellish loves conjoin themselves with hellish thoughts in
what is called an “infernal concubinage” between corrupted good and falsified
truth. This infernal marriage or marriage made in hell, produces the
sensorimotor environment of the Grand Monster. Swedenborg describes many details
of this appearance in his book
Heaven and
Hell published in 1758, which forms a portion of the Swedenborg Reports.
Evil loves, or lusts, are consummated in abominable ways so that the
sensorimotor environment they instantiate as a surrounding environment is dark,
dreary, dangerous, dungeon and dragon-like. People in their role as devils and
genii, or sirens and sorceresses, play out an immortal life that is beastly,
debasing, and devoid of any rational and sane sentiment or understanding. Cave
like bandits and bands of pirates roam around, appear and disappear, threatening
others with mental tortures known as the “fires of hell.” Sirens and magicians
prey upon the less corrupt than they are, capturing lesser devils than they are,
and consummating on them their love of dominating, enslaving, and extinguishing
whatever they have left that is their own. Such is the sensorimotor environment
produced by the infernal marriage in the human mind.

But if our ruling love after resuscitation allows those
loves we have acquired that desire to benefit others and not just self, then we
are incorporated into the anatomical framework of the Grand Human. The
Swedenborg Reports describe various methods or mechanisms by which this
incorporation is achieved. They involve spiritual “gyres” or sensorimotor
induction procedures by which the individual’s anatomical framework is made to
become an integral part and functioning component of the Grand Human. Swedenborg
witnessed and described gyres or spiritual dances that involved thousands of
participants. Often he could hear very large choirs accompanying the induction
activity. The individual is inducted into some society of the Grand Human that
shares the specific loves of the new arrival. And upon arrival there, the person
feels like “coming home” and the neighbors have faces that look like brothers,
sisters, and cousins. Above all, one begins life as a conjoint self, by being
united to one’s soul mate as a spouse. This celestial marriage produces as
offspring the endless neos in the universe.

When the husband or boyfriend is in the male dominance
mood, the wife or girlfriend is restricted to living with his sensorimotor
intimacy neos, while being deprived of his cognitive intimacy neos and affective
intimacy neos. When the husband or boyfriend is in the equity mood, the
wife or girlfriend is living with his sensorimotor intimacy neos as well as his
cognitive intimacy neos, but is deprived of his affective intimacy neos. When
the husband or boyfriend is in the unity mood, the wife or girlfriend is
given access to all three mental layers of his mind, being able to conjoin with
his sensorimotor intimacy neos, with his
cognitive intimacy neos, and with his
affective intimacy neos. The natural marriage turns into a spiritual marriage as
the husband spends more of his time in the unity mood. The wife is then able to
deepen the couple’s conjunction and advance progressively to anatomical
conjunction in all
layers of their mental world together. They are then united
to eternity as soul mates. Through this joint effort at conjunction they have
grown for themselves a conjugial couple’s conjoint self, which is the final
completion of a human being.

Swedenborg interviewed conjugial couples in
layer 4 of the
mental world of eternity. As they approach him from a distance the two appear as
one walking, and when the two are face to face talking it appears that they are
talking as-if together in facial expression. These are examples of celestial
sensorimotor intimacy neos within which are cognitive intimacy neos, within
which are affective intimacy neos. They are joined in all their loves through a
reciprocal conjunction of their mental anatomy. This affective conjunction is
reciprocal between masculine love and feminine love. They each receive the love
as spiritual heat from the Spiritual Sun, but this Divine Love enters the
masculine affective organ differently than its received by the feminine
affective organ. Hence it is that the conjunction is possible being in
reciprocal loves. This reciprocal and differentiated affective conjunction
produces affective conjoint neos that express themselves, and thereby find their
fulfillment, in the sensorimotor intimacy neos of their separated faces, as
witnessed and described by Swedenborg.

CL 42. I shall append here accounts of two experiences from the
spiritual world, of which this is the first.
One morning I looked up into heaven and saw above me one broad level above
another, and as I watched, the first level near to me was opened up, and then
the second above, and finally the third, which was the highest. I was
enlightened by this so as to grasp that the angels forming the first or lowest
heaven were on the first level, those forming the second or middle heaven on the
second level, and those forming the third or highest heaven on the third level.

At first I wondered what this meant and why it so appeared; and then I heard a
voice like the sound of a trumpet coming out of heaven, which said, 'We have
noticed and now see that you are meditating about conjugial love. We know that
so far no one on earth knows what truly conjugial love is in its origin and
essence, important though it is to know this. It has therefore pleased the Lord
to open up the heavens to you, so that the light which enlightens may flow into
the inner levels of your mind and allow you to perceive it. Our celestial
delights in the heavens, especially the third, are chiefly from conjugial love.
We have therefore been given permission to send down a married couple for you to
see.'

[2] Then suddenly there was to be seen a chariot coming down from the highest or
third heaven, containing what seemed to be one angel. But as it approached, it
seemed to have two angels in it. The chariot seen from afar sparkled like a
diamond, and had harnessed to it foals as white as snow. The travelers riding in
the chariot held in their hands two turtle-doves, and they called out to me,
'You would like us to come closer, but be careful then that the fiery radiance,
which is from the heaven we come down from, does not strike too deep. It will
certainly enlighten the higher concepts in your intellect, which are in
themselves heavenly. But these are inexpressible in the world where you now are.
So understand rationally what you are about to hear, and so explain this to your
intellect.'

'I will be careful,' I replied, 'come closer.' They did so, and turned out to be
a husband and wife. 'We are a married couple,' they said. 'We have led a blessed
life in heaven from the earliest time, which you call the Golden Age. We have
been perpetually in the bloom of youth, in which you see us today.'

[3] I gazed at them both, because I realised that in their life and their
adornment they were a picture of conjugial love. Their lives were to be seen
from their faces, their adornment from their dress. For all angels are
affections of love in human form. Their ruling affection shines out from their
faces, and it is their affection which provides and determines what they wear.
So in heaven there is a saying, everyone is dressed by his affection. The
husband looked to be of an age half way between an adolescent and a young adult.
Sparkling light glittered from his eyes, an effect of the wisdom of love; this
light made his face shine with a kind of internal radiance, and this radiation
made his skin shine on the outside, so that his whole face was a single lovely
splendour. He was dressed in an ankle-length robe, over a blue garment with a
gold belt, decorated with three gems, a sapphire at either side and a carbuncle
at the centre. He wore stockings of shining linen with silver threads in the
weave, and pure silk shoes. This was the picture presented by conjugial love in
the husband.

[4] In the wife it appeared like this. I saw her face and at the same time I did
not see it. It looked like Beauty itself, but I could not see it because this is
inexpressible. Her face shone with fiery light, the light the angels in the
third heaven enjoy, and this dazzled my sight, so that I was simply amazed. When
she noticed this, she spoke to me. 'What can you see?' she asked. 'I can see
nothing but conjugial love and the form it takes,' I answered. 'But I both see
and don't see.'

At this she turned sideways on to her husband, and then I could gaze at her more
fixedly. Her eyes flashed with the light of her heaven, a fiery light, as I have
said, which derives from the love of wisdom. For the love wives have for their
husbands in that heaven comes from and is focussed on their wisdom, and the love
husbands have for their wives comes from and is focussed on that love for
themselves, so that it unites them. As a result her beauty was such that no
painter could ever rival it or render it in its true appearance, for his colours
lack radiance and his art has no means to express her loveliness. Her hair was
beautifully dressed in an arrangement which had a meaning by correspondence, and
it had flowers in it made of jewelled settings. Her necklace was of carbuncles,
and from it hung a rosary of gold-coloured gems, and she had pearl bracelets.
She was dressed in a red gown over a purple blouse, fastened at the front with
rubies. But I was surprised to see that the colours changed as she turned
towards or away from her husband, and this too made them sparkle more or less,
more when they looked at each other, less when not directly facing.

[5] When I had seen this, they spoke with me again; and when the husband spoke,
it was as if what he said came at the same time from the wife, and when the wife
spoke, it was as if it came at the same time from her husband, so closely united
were their minds, from which their utterances flowed. And I could also then hear
the sound of conjugial love, which was in inward unison within their speech, and
arose from the delights of a state of peace and innocence.

At length they said, 'We are being called back, we must go.' Then they were seen
again riding in a chariot, as before. They drove along a paved road between
flower-beds with olive-trees and trees laden with orange fruit springing from
them. When they approached their own heaven, maidens came out to welcome them
and escort them in. (CL 42)

CL 51. VII. THAT MARRIED PARTNERS ENJOY SIMILAR INTERCOURSE WITH
EACH OTHER AS IN THE WORLD, BUT MORE DELIGHTFUL AND BLESSED, YET WITHOUT
PROLIFICATION; FOR WHICH, OR IN PLACE OF IT, THEY HAVE SPIRITUAL PROLIFICATION,
WHICH IS THAT OF LOVE AND WISDOM. That married partners enjoy similar
intercourse as in the world, is because, after death, the male is a male and the
female a female, and in both, an inclination to conjunction is implanted from
creation. This inclination is an inclination of the spirit and thence of the
body. Therefore, after death, when man becomes a spirit, the same mutual
inclination continues, and this cannot exist without similar intercourse. For
man is man as before, nor is there anything lacking either in the male or in the
female. They are like themselves as to form, and equally so as to affections and
thoughts. What else can follow then, but that they have similar intercourse? and
since conjugial love is chaste, pure, and holy, that the intercourse is also
complete? But see further on this subject in the Memorable Relation, no. 44.
That the intercourse is then more delightful and blessed, is because, when that
love becomes a love of the spirit, it becomes more interior and purer and
therefore more perceptible; for every delight increases according to perception,
and it so increases that its blessedness is observed in its delight. (CL 51)

I’ve been trying to keep track of all my neo productions –
written, conversational, and reflective. At first I naively believed that I
could keep a record of my reflective neologisms by following one of my favorite
long standing rule of life: If you think, ink it. I have this from the well
known author and lecturer Paul Pearsall who was kind enough to provide a blurb
for the cover jacket of my book with Diane on Road Rage and Aggressive Driving
(2000). Interestingly, there are no occurrences on the Web of “If you think, ink
it.” I advocate this rule to all the students that happen to register for my
section of the psychology curriculum for majors. And I have them practice the
self-witnessing approach to keeping track of one’s emotions, intentions,
thoughts, and sensory-motor behaviors, including verbal. But this is the first
time that I was imagining that I could snatch most of if not all of my
reflective neos from sudden memory, that I might add them to my Neochart. While
I was still holding on to this dubious intentionality I was also trying to go
through my published articles to identify all the scientific neos they
contained. This time I was even more confident that this would be a task I can
handle.

Neither task is actually possible. Today I had the
perception of the reason why it is impossible. I should have known better to
begin with, given that I have constructed many scientific neologisms during the
1970s when I was writing about ethnomethodological psycholinguistics – as you
can see from a number of entries in my Neochart from that period. One of the
great and deep ethnomethodological neologisms that I received from other
intrepid ethnomethodologists preceding me, is this one in
Garfinkel’s 1967
book Studies in Ethnomethodology:“Dana
succeeded in putting a penny in the parking meter today” – which still today 31
years later has no other occurrence if you google it. Remember that googling and
yahooing only brings you to Web pages. Still this is a huge sample that should
accurately estimate the occurrence of various sentence fragments. I was struck
back then when I read the book in 1971 by Garfinkel’s demonstration, and
theoretical proof, that it would be impossible to explain in full what this
sentence means. And yet, it did mean something specific and informational to the
wife to whom this sentence was said by the husband. Garfinkel tries at first to
explain the direct meaning, the context, the past history, the relationship
between the couple, how the family is involved, their sub-cultural background
and social practices, the law, the geography, the times and period. All of this
had to be explained to some historian who wanted all the explanations needed to
understand this sentence spoken in an ordinary dialog.

Garfinkel shows
with other examples from office and work contexts that when you write an
explanatory paragraph as part of a collection of paragraphs like a Report or
Letter, each explanatory paragraph opens up new issues that have not been
explained before. And when you try to explain the new issues, the paragraphs you
construct for their explanations, now require more paragraphs to be explained.
In other words there is no way of fully explaining anything that is part of
human social practices like relationships, interactions, events, objects and
their use.

I could have
remembered this sooner when I started forming the idea that a Neochart can be
more or less complete. Here is the amazing point, or mental law that I
discovered today: The more complete you try to make your Neochart, the further
behind you get.

Neos are not only
immortal and spiritual but they are visible to consciousness for only a split
second in sudden memory, then they are gone forever. We can only snatch a very
small proportion of them into short term memory, and then store them in our long
term memory and from there through our fingers into digital databases on
computers. Neocharts must therefore be considered highly selective and not
representative of the continuous and endless series of neos that human living
produces in the mental world of eternity. Each of those endless neos, born in
one mental location in an individual’s unique mind, are like food morsels and
liquids in the diet that keeps our body alive.

A case in point: my entry for this afternoon produced the
above page and a half of around 800 words. In an attempt to describe my
perception or meaning I had to produce 30 neologisms. On the average, every
fifth word is a neo. This applies to writing. Things multiply by several
magnitudes when you consider people’s talking, where many more sentences are
produced than in writing. Clearly, talking neos are constructed much more
effectively than writing neos. The production of reflective neos is by several
magnitudes greater than that of talking neos. The very act of monitoring our
reflective neo production produces meta-neos of still greater quantity, which
increases inordinately with meta-meta-neos. The highest production of neos
across the
layers of mental eternity is in layer 4 called the “Third Heaven” in
the Swedenborg Reports. In this region of the Grand Human (heart and
reproductive organs) human neos are the direct result of Divine Neos through the
Omniproprium that provides the source of all loves and understandings existing
in that highest region of human consciousness.

By the time this Neo article reached 90 pages in length
(May 27, 2008) it contributed 700 neos to the Master Neochart, which at the time
had 1870 entries. The neos I produced just in this article amounts to a third of
the neos I identified in two dozen previous articles that I sampled. The most
likely explanation is that I am trying to be exhaustive about counting all the
neos in this Neo Article, while I only sampled the previous ones, and mostly for
one-word and two-word neos. But even in this Neo Article I am not fully
exhaustive because I am exhausted by this losing battle of trying to keep up
with all or most of my neo productions. I spend more time adding neos to the
Master Neochart than I have time left for writing new paragraphs, whence still
more neos are born. My wife gets exhausted seeing me exhausted by this task. She
has exhausted her motivation to keep up with my discoveries and enthusiasm for
neos. Of course, if you have bigger resources available to you than your own
hard work, such as assistants, or a few computer programmers, paid or
volunteers, then go right ahead and see how exhaustive you can be about keeping
track of all your neo babies. No doubt a research grant on neo productivity
might solve these technical issues.

What is the distinction we are to make between these three
words or concepts? A "neo" is short for neologism, which means a new mental
unit. All mental units come into existence in the cognitive organ of one of the
six
layers of the mental world of eternity. Higher order neos are progressively
more spiritual and rational as they approach the
highest
layer (4C). A “word” refers to a unit of speaking, writing,
communicating. The “word” is the smallest stand alone unit that is listed in a
dictionary. A “correspondence”
is the relationship between cause and effect, given that “effects” are natural
phenomena, while their “causes” are mental phenomena.Neos are new words, either singly, or in new combination. Correspondences
are relationships between natural and spiritual neos.